For diabetics, preventing renal failure is hard work but essential
November 25th, 2008 in Medicine & Health / DiseasesDiabetes has cost Robert Heard dearly. His left leg was amputated below the knee two years ago. Kidney failure - with its special diets, thrice-weekly dialysis, and ever-present threats of infection - is worse.
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