“…1 The fact that 5% of the world's population is projected to have pre-diabetes by the year 2030 prompted Dr Nilanjana Guha and colleagues to undertake a randomised controlled trial (RCT) on the topic: compared with placebo, individually prescribed homeopathic medicines showed some improvement in fasting blood sugar levels, though not in glucose tolerance, indicating that homeopathy might offer modest benefit. 2 For the animal kingdom, mastitis-metritis-agalactia (MMA) is a commonly seen syndrome in post-partum sows: in an RCT of homeopathic prophylaxis, however, Dr Kathrin Büttner et al did not detect any improvement in occurrence of MMA in sows that received a combination of two specialised complex homeopathic remedies. 3 The issue's middle pages comprise two thoroughly conducted laboratory studies: one on toxicity assessment of Ferrum phosphoricum 4 ; the other on anti-glycation properties of Syzygium jambolanum on human serum albumin.…”