With the development of weight loss injections, the battle against obesity found a new meaning. The current treatments work by mimicking the effects of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) which normally regulates appetite and food intake. Recent studies...

­­ Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: An Evil Pairing Currently, the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) is approximately 463 million, which is equivalent to 9.3% of the world’s population. The global pandemic of DM is expected to r...

The Burden of Chronic Kidney Disease Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is one of the most prominent causes of death and suffering in the 21 st century. The number of patients affected by CKD has substantially increased with an estimate of 843.6 million i...

Euthyrox ® (levothyroxine sodium) Merck Composition: • Available as tablet containing 25, 50 or 100 µg of levothyroxine sodium Indication: • Euthyrox® 25-200 µg is indicated for the substitution therapy in hypothyroid...

An Every-Increasing Problem with HFpEF Heart failure (HF) is a complex clinical syndrome that results from a functional or structural heart disorder impairing the ventricular filling or ejection of blood to the systemic circulation 1 . It affects mo...

Excessive sugar intake is associated with the increased risk of obesity and chronic diseases including diabetes and cardiovascular conditions. Thus, health promotion programs reducing sugar intake among population is needed to contain the prevalence...

The POEMS syndrome is a rare plasma cell disorder involving pathological changes of polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy, M-protein, and skin changes. The diagnostic and therapeutic management of the disease is clinically challenging. Given ...