What Doctors Don't Tell YouI have just read your article on pneumonia (WDDTY vol 15 no 11), in which I was quite interested, as my mother is very subject to pneumonia. We have also just managed to get her off about seven prescription drugs. Is it possible that drugs...
HEART RISKS: Is another urban myth toppled?
TRANS FATTY ACIDS: The hidden killers in our food
The new evidence debunking cholesterol lowering isn't license to tuck into bacon and chips every day. As a number of writers demonstrate, the problem is that medicine has probably fingered the wr ...
HOMOCYSTEINE: The saga of a medical breakthrough
Although small studies have been suggesting it for some time, the Grand Old Man of heart research has finally come out and said it, too: cholesterol cannot be looked on as the only cause of corona ...
What is a 'normal' blood test, asked a reader last week. Several readers point out that there are so many different types of test, and the laboratory will look only for those specific markers or components in the blood that the doctor has requested...
Alternative medicine has an extraordinary number of remedies for dealing with those illnesses that come out in winter months.
High cholesterol is accepted by virtually everyone as a passport to a heart attack. Doctors have also suspected that low cholesterol is linked to other dangerous conditions, such as cancer, stroke ...
Most still believe that a high cholesterol diet is the cause of heart disease. But new research is showing that this view is an oversimplification of a complex process that has more to do with mo ...
