Can Health System Afford New Cholesterol Drugs?

Medications may cost as much as $12,000 per person each year

Could insulin pills prevent diabetes? Big study seeks answe

For nearly a century, insulin has been a life-saving diabetes treatment. Now scientists are testing a tantalizing question: What if pills containing the same medicine patients inject every day could also prevent the disease?

Diabetes: KSA is 7th in the world, 1st in Gulf

RIYADH: Despite significant improvement internationally in the study and treatment of diabetes over the past five years due to the development of new drugs that control blood sugar levels, endocrinologists have revealed that the Kingdom ranks seventh worldwide and the first in the Gulf in terms of diabetes rates.

Men who exercise may delay age-related high cholesterol

Men who get plenty of aerobic exercise may delay the onset of age-related high cholesterol, potentially lowering their risk for heart disease, a new study suggests.

Researchers followed thousands of men over several decades, periodically drawing blood to test their cholesterol and then making them run on treadmills to measure their cardiorespiratory fitness. Men who could run longer and faster – signs that their bodies more easily deliver oxygen to muscles – also had lower cholesterol.

Some Diabetes Drugs May Aid Weight Loss

Medications called GLP-1 receptors appear to change brain's response to food, researchers say

A class of drugs used to treat diabetes also appears to help patients lose weight by changing how the brain responds to food, a new study suggests.

Upper Blood Pressure Number and Younger Adults

Systolic pressure of 140 mm Hg or more raises risk for heart disease in later life, researchers say

Dine Out Often? You're Probably At Risk For HBP

If you choose to eat out for most of your meals, chances are you are probably at increased risk for high blood pressure, according to a new study.

Overweight diabetes patients outlive slimmer ones, study says

Patients with type-2 diabetes who are overweight but not obese outlive diabetics of normal weight, scientists reported on Monday, in another example of the "obesity paradox." 

Diabetes and Eating Disorders

Eating disorders have become much more prevalent over the last 30 years. Indeed, as a college student, many of us were very close to young women (and occasionally, men) who were afflicted with these disorders and were totally unaware of its symptoms and serious complications. Eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia are now very much on the radar of primary care and specialty physicians. Programs for comprehensive management of this disease exist: some inpatient and others in the outpatient setting.

Emphysema, Chronic Bronchitis, and Flu

If you have emphysema or chronic bronchitis, you need to be extra vigilant in preventing flu. You already know that, with emphysema or chronic bronchitis, it's difficult to breathe under normal circumstances. But the combination of lung disease and flu, a respiratory viral infection, worsens your breathing problem, making it very difficult to breathe through the obstructed, inflamed airways.