What Doctors Don't Tell YouHEART DISEASE: You go to the city, you die
Since I last wrote about this in this column 10 years ago, reliable data have emerged from clinical trials validating a number of non-orthodox treatments for this condition.
Intermittent claudication is cramp-like pain, mostly in the calves when walking, due to poor circulation of blood in the leg muscles. It also causes attacks of lameness and leg pain.
Re your article ‘Diabetes: the real culprit’ (WDDTY vol 13 no 12), I am a 63-year-old type-II diabetic, diagnosed at the age of 50. I am also a biochemist/molecular biologist,
In 1996, WDDTY claimed that the so-called cures for osteoporosis may actually cause it (WDDTY, vol 6, no 12). Since then, nothing has changed. In fact, the situation has worsened.
PASSIVE SMOKING: It even rots your teeth
Studies estimating the lifetime risk of women with the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic mutation developing breast cancer may have exaggerated the risk by only looking at high-risk families
THE END OF HEART ATTACKS? We hope it's true, we fear it's not
Three of the first people in America caught in the AIDS epidemic were told nearly 20 years ago that they’d soon be in their graves.
Q Can you suggest a natural alternative to stripping varicose veins? - RW, Henley-on-Thames
