What depressing reading your WDDTY vol 14 no 10 made – rightly headed ‘Depression’. It seems that Big Pharma will go to any lengths to sell its products, irrespective of whether they have been tested or not.
This news was compounded by a report on the World Service about young mothers in Kenya. One case was a 15-year-old who had a difficult birth and developed a fistula that linked her vagina, bladder and anus, resulting in a continuous discharge of faecal matter. As she lacked the $25 for the operation to correct this condition, she was confined to her hut until the money could be raised.
In 13 years, I have got my blood pressure down from a systolic 200+ to 104/53 mmHg, basically by reducing my homocysteine count through diet and supplements. Not bad for a 92 year old! – A.J.S. McMillan, Bristol