- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Published on: January 4, 2010
Happy New Year and welcome back to the ANR News Blog.
It's common for people to resolve this time of year to lose weight. Appropriately, the lead story in Sunday's Los Angeles Times reported on what might be a controversial new way to shed a few pounds. In clinical trials, scientists are studying the use of weight-loss surgery - a practice more common for the morbidly obese - on moderately overweight people.
The article opens with the story of a 48-year-old woman struggling to lose a stubborn 50 pounds. Not heavy enough for traditional weight-loss surgery guidelines, she enrolled in a clinical trial for a new, less...
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