{"id":4794,"date":"2016-10-21T10:01:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T14:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2016-10-21T10:01:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T14:01:21","slug":"obesity-and-the-brain-new-findings-could-spur-future-drug-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4794","title":{"rendered":"Obesity and the brain: New findings could spur future drug development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Meghana Keshavan for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">T<\/span>here hasn\u2019t been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/05\/17\/obesity-pill-market\/\" target=\"_blank\">a lot of innovation<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">1<\/sup> in the obesity drug market. Sure, a smattering of companies have come out with weight loss medications \u2014 but their results have been middling and their financial performance poor. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/10\/20\/obesity-brain-glial-cells\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8jLy3U8w0SL8G9fBUgJc3VrpU4uKRCpXzNA-pxFuWKIF2HGOxmvCk9rNYI9dEq58ejBLBQ1g7edA0WgCen5zW_0pcfNw&amp;_hsmi=36251522\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"stat-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Meghana Keshavan for STAT) There hasn\u2019t been a lot of innovation1 in the obesity drug market. Sure, a smattering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4795,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions\/4795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}