The Food and Drug Administration voted against endorsing a prescription drug called Qnexa for obesity. Had it passed, the drug would have been the first new prescription medication for obesity in more than a decade. Their denial of the drug shows that the FDA is still concerned about the health risks that are commonly associated [...]
Scientists working in Germany and the US say they have found a “fidget” molecule and if you have it in your genes you are less likely to be fat. Mice with the molecule are more likely to be primed athletic beasts, while those without laze around getting fat. It is the second time in recent [...]
A majority of adults are obese or overweight in most European Union nations and kids increasingly contributing to make Europe a fat continent, the EU’s top public health official said Wednesday. “The numbers are frightening,” said EU Health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou. Bad diets based on fatty and sweet ingredients combined with physical laziness by now [...]
Human trials of an experimental treatment for obesity derived from cannabis, which is commonly associated with stimulating hunger, are scheduled to begin in the second half of this year, Britain’s GW Pharmaceuticals Plc announced Tuesday. Several other companies, such as Sanofi-Aventis, which is investigating Acomplia, are working on new drugs that will switch off the [...]
