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26th January 2010 11:47am
Another anti-obesity pill bites the dust
If you search PubMed for articles relating to body-mass index, obesity, and mortality you will see an explosion in the number of articles in the last 5 years, as scientists try to characterise and explain the long-term effects of obesity.
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