Diet pills may harm brain development
June 5, 2008
From MSNBC News
CHICAGO – A drug from a new class of weight-loss treatments disrupted wiring needed for brain development in young mice, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday, raising concerns about using such medications in children.
Mark Bear and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studied the effects of a chemical that suppresses appetite by blocking cannabinoid receptors in the brain, the same brain mechanisms that make people hungry when they smoke marijuana.
“I think that the cautionary note is that these mechanisms play an important role in … brain development,” said Bear, whose study appears in the journal Neuron.
Jared Wheat Lists Grievances Against Fed Prosecutors
March 3, 2008
From Mike Brunker, MSNBC.com
Jared Wheat summons the high dudgeon of a wronged man as he lists his grievances against federal prosecutors. They have distorted the truth, smeared his reputation and harmed his thriving dietary supplement business, he says, in an effort to send him to prison for allegedly manufacturing generic prescription drugs and selling them over the Internet.
“I’ve just gotten the rough end of the stick all around,” Wheat told msnbc.com, sitting at the head of a conference table piled with pill bottles in the headquarters of Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, the supplement company he founded in 1994. “… If you have a fight, you want a fair fight. You don’t want all this other stuff … trying to disprove negatives and fight things that simply are not true.
