At Firstmed, we're inspired by a single goal: your health. That's why we're dedicated to developing new, safe medicines to prevent and treat the world's most serious diseases. And why we are making them available to the people who need them most. We believe that from progress comes hope and the promise of a healthier world.
Obesity
Diabetes
Once considered an aesthetic rather than a medical problem, obesity is now officially recognised as a major public health problem. No longer the lifestyle disease of the affluent west, it is growing at an alarming rate both in the industrialised countries and the developing world. more
According to the American Diabetes Association, about 20.8 million people (that's 7% of the population) in the U.S. have diabetes — although as many as one third of them don't even know it. Having diabetes means that your blood sugar is too high. Sugar, or glucose, is the basic source of fuel for many of the body's organs. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas that allows sugar to move from the blood into the cells, where it can be used for energy. more
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