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Prognosis

Body Scan Makers Are Trying to Cash in on Obesity Drug Boom

Obesity is a growing problem in many countries. 

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Hi, it’s Naomi in Berlin. I recently clipped a device to my heel to satisfy my vanity. More on that anon, but first...

My ears perked up at the recent European Congress on Obesity in Malaga, Spain when a young newspaper reporter walked into the press room muttering something about “two kilos too much fat.” Apparently he’d gotten some surprising news from a body scan down in the presenters’ hall.