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Dirk Hanson

Articles and health studies about drugs, addiction and alcoholism, including the most recent scientific and medical findings.

Showing posts with label weight loss. Show all posts

Showing posts with label weight loss. Show all posts

Sunday, November 25, 2012

How Many Calories in Your Daily Alcohol?

Booze as food. Everywhere we turn, the news is packed with stories about the nation’s obesity epidemic. But one little-discussed fact a...

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Weight Loss Redux

Why diet pills are problematic. "Physicians who treat obesity hailed the Food and Drug Administration's recent approval of two...

Sunday, July 8, 2012

The Truth About Weight Loss Surgery and Alcohol

Bariatrics and booze don’t always mix. For many people with obesity, bariatric surgery has proven to be a lifesaver. But for a subset of p...

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

The Saga of Phen-Fen

How a blockbuster diet pill died. It took many years to bring depression and its treatment into the rational light of day. Addiction in t...

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

The History of Prozac

How a pill for alcoholism became a blockbuster antidepressant. Back in the 1970s, while doing research on antidepressants at Eli Lilly and ...

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Drug for Cocaine Addicts Causes Weight Loss

Is Vigabatrin the next big diet pill? The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory announced that obese rats lost weig...

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