Next year will mark the 100th anniversary of a critical moment in modern medicine. In 1920, the Canadian surgeon Frederick Banting lay down in bed to read a research article on diabetes and was inspired to enter the field. Three years later…

Most diet trials in the best journals fail even the most basic of quality control measures. That's the finding of a study by us to be published today in JAMA Network Open. Investigators receiving funding for any clinical trial from the National…

By Jana Retief | November 14th, 2019| The 14th of November is World Diabetes Day. The aim of this day is to specifically help people put the necessary preventative methods in place as well as address and educate around the complications and…

Since Ancel Keys raised the issue of saturated fat intake as a potential cause for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the early 1950s, advice to reduce the intake of this nutrient has become a cornerstone of mainstream dietary advice. More recently…