The world’s media has been buzzing with the news of a new wonder drug that combats obesity. The drug rimonabant - marketed in the US as Acomplia - is the ultimate magic bullet. Its acts by ‘switching off’ that part of the brain that controls...
So urgent is the desire for a ‘magic-bullet’ drug to counter major diseases such as cancer and heart disease that too many medical trials are ended, usually prematurely, as soon as there is the first glimmering that a new breakthrough drug may have...