A new avenue for diet pill makers? UC San Diego researchers uncover root of leptin resistance
Let’s be honest, the market for weight loss drugs has mostly been bust. While the industry has moved on from the fen-phen fiasco of decades past, newer diet pills like Belviq and Qsymia have still failed to deliver big sales. In the background, however, scientists continue to unpack the complicated internal mechanisms that lead to obesity. And a team of researchers in San Diego say they’ve discovered something that might give drugmakers renewed hope.
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