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Banned Weight-loss Drug Could Combat Liver Disease, Diabetes

Posted by Soulskill on from the things-that-were-good-but-then-bad-but-then-good dept.

sciencehabit writes: A drug the U.S. government once branded "extremely dangerous and not fit for human consumption" deserves a second chance, a study of rats suggests. Researchers report (abstract) that a slow-release version of the compound reverses diabetes and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), an untreatable condition that can lead to cirrhosis and liver cancer.

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  1. Re:WTF with the /. Interface?!?!? by cayenne8 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Ok, I'd heard about BETA but never had seen it before.

    So, is this beta or just something worse till beta comes?

    JFC....why does someone have to change something JUST For the sake of change. What was wrong with they way /. has looked for the past years?

    It is now a PITA to go see what comments are threaded onto my comments...whereas it was quite easy to see and tell when new ones came onto your part of the thread in response to you.

    I just discovered the Soylent News thing....maybe that will indeed be the new slashdot.

    This is very disappointing. Not everyone views everything through the small fucking screen of a cell phone.

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