Obesity Treatment Gives You the Opposite of the Munchies

Wired by Alexis Madrigal | Jan. 8, 2008 (News Report)

New results show that Merck's experimental anti-obesity drug, which acts as sort of an inverse marijuana by blocking the brain receptor that pot stimulates, significantly reduced appetites and led to weight loss in human study subjects. Full Story »

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Subjects: Health
Topics: Narcotics
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Posted by: Posted by Autumn Carlson - Jan 9, 2008 - 6:49 AM PST
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Jun 17, 2008 - 4:05 PM PDT
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 by Juliet Sallette - Jan. 20, 2008

Good story on the important toic of the obesity debate. It shows a fair and balanced view of the importance and the dangers of a drug to help fight obesity.

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 by Autumn Carlson - Jan. 9, 2008
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