Clue To Safer Obesity Drugs: Mechanism Links Serotonin With Regulation Of Food Intake
Saturday, December 6, 2008 - 23:28
in Health & Medicine
Once hailed as a miracle weight-loss drug, Fen-phen was removed from the market more than a decade ago for inducing life-threatening side effects, including heart valve lesions. Scientists are trying to understand how Fen-phen behaves in the brain in order to develop safer anti-obesity drugs with fewer side effects.