New Pills Hope to Fight Obesity Without Past Problems

New Pills Hope To Fight Obesity Without Past Problems
The first of three new fat-fighting drugs will face public examination by US regulatory advisers next week, as pharmaceutical companies target the growing number of overweight Americans despite a less than glamorous past for weight-loss pills. Three drug makers — Vivus Inc, Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc and Orexigen Therapeutics Inc — are trying to succeed where other efforts have failed after …
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This Week In Trailers: Farewell, Earthwork, Deadfall, The Dead and the Damned, A Film Unfinished
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way …
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Roll of the Dice?
Merck is closing down eight research and development facilities , including ones in Montreal and Cambridge, MA, reports Fierce Biotech. In addition, eight manufacturing plants will close.
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