Developing safer, more effective drugs to fight obesity

Monday, April 13, 2009 - 09:28 in Health & Medicine

Safer and more effective drugs to fight obesity appear to be around the corner, but researchers still await a complete understanding of the biological underpinnings of the complex disease, according to an article scheduled for the 13 April issue of Chemical and Engineering News (C and EN), ACS' weekly newsmagazine. Obesity is a growing epidemic that affects more than 72 million people in the United States alone, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention...

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