obesity
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The findings helped explain why complete HSL deficiency causes lipodystrophy instead of obesity.
From Science Daily • May 8, 2026
The company was spun off by Novartis in 2023, and at that time its midterm targets for 2028 didn’t include obesity drugs.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
The findings, published in Cell Metabolism, helped solve a long-standing mystery in obesity research and opened new directions for understanding diabetes, heart disease, and other metabolic disorders.
From Science Daily • May 8, 2026
Generic competition could influence the extent to which obesity pioneers Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly continue to reap a windfall, and stifle the prospects of emerging rivals.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
“Increasingly, though, there’s evidence that watching TV—and, especially, watching junk food ads on TV—promotes obesity by changing mainly what and how much people eat, less so by changing how much they move.”
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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