Successful treatment of rare forms of obesity

Wednesday, August 3, 2016 - 11:31 in Health & Medicine

As part of a phase II study at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Berlin Institute of Health, two obese patients with a rare genetic disorder were given a drug treatment to stimulate the satiety center in the brain. After only a few weeks, both patients, which were severely hyperphagic before the study start, showed […]

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