Obesity: Reviving the promise of leptin

Tuesday, January 6, 2009 - 12:14 in Health & Medicine

The discovery more than a decade ago of leptin, an appetite-suppressing hormone secreted by fat tissue, generated headlines and great hopes for an effective treatment for obesity.read more

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