Podcast

Book Club – The truth about fat

2019-04-09T14:00:00Z

‘Angry chef’ Anthony Warner wants you to understand why people really get fat and how society tricks us into blaming each other

Feature

The battle to lose weight

2019-03-11T09:33:00Z

Losing weight – and not putting it back on – is about much more than willpower. Nina Notman reports on the drugs trying to penetrate the complex metabolic web of hunger and satiety. 

Research

Brain chemistry hints at how obesity impairs antidepressants

2018-05-03T12:04:00Z

Histamine released in response to obesity or bacterial toxins prevents benefits from SSRIs – and that drugs that target these inflammatory signals may restore them

Podcast

Orlistat

2017-01-04T16:50:00Z

With thoughts turning to our festively-expanded waistlines, Kit Chapman looks at a poster child in the battle against obesity

Podcast

Raspberry ketone

2016-08-24T13:20:00Z

Is there really a simple, fruity route to weight loss?

Podcast

Ghrelin

2016-08-10T15:13:00Z

The one hormone that we know is involved in appetite

Podcast

Sucrose

2016-05-31T00:00:00Z

The tastiest food additive there is, or the greatest threat to life in the western world?

Research

Bacterium altered to suppress hunger faces long road to clinic

2015-03-24T00:00:00Z

Engineered microbes produce anti-obesity molecule in mice, but moving to humans poses challenges

News

EU tightens drug rules in wake of Mediator scandal

2012-09-19T00:00:00Z

Withdrawal of a drug in one EU member state will trigger an alert throughout the rest

Business

Obesity drug approved in US

2012-07-18T00:00:00Z

Qsymia from Vivus joins Belviq in a lucrative part of the pharma industry

News

FDA green lights new obesity drug

2012-06-28T00:00:00Z

Agency approval for prescription only obesity drug is first for 13 years