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A large number of studies, both in humans and in animals, have looked at the mechanisms required for white adipose tissue to work as brown adipose tissue...

People who are looking to lose weight quite often (and totally understandably) want to explore the easiest option for shedding excess weight and it is not just the obese and overweight who are attracted to the prospect of popping a pill and watching the pounds melt away; gym bunnies are also despera...

Orexigen Therapeutics has set out to recruit the 10,000 participants that it requires for the cardiovascular risk study of Contrave, its lead weight loss drug candidate...

Kim Kardashian, sometime reality TV star, has been in the UK to promote a weight loss product that she has been peddling in the States for some time...

The votes came in at 17 to 6 last week and the advisory panel to the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has indicated to the regulators that weight loss drugs should go through clinical trials specifically gauging potential cardiovascular risk, even if there is no reason to suspect that a particular...