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New Harvard study fights fat with salty, icy injections
Posted in Medicine on 16th Jan, 2020
by Alex Muller
Injecting an icy saline slurry into fat deposits could be a new fat-reduction
Nanoparticle-drug combo turns white fat to brown fat with potential to treat obesity, diabetes
Posted in Medicine on 9th Jul, 2018
by Alex Muller
A way to deliver a drug directly to stored white fat cells to turn them into more easily burned brown fat cells.
Anti-obesity drug acts on brain's appetite control system
Posted in Medicine on 25th Oct, 2017
by Alex Muller
A drug that targets the appetite control system in the brain could bring about significant weight loss in people with clinical obesity.
'Fat but fit' still risk heart disease
Posted in Medicine on 15th Aug, 2017
by Alex Muller
People who are overweight or obese are at increased risk of heart disease even if they appear medically healthy, experts are warning.
Scientists find brain hormone that triggers fat burning
Posted in Science on 30th Jan, 2017
by Alex Muller
Biologists have identified a brain hormone that appears to trigger fat burning in the gut.