Fighting Obesity by Popping Pills?

Drug-makers have had little success gaining FDA-approval for diet pills.  According to The Economist: “It has been 13 years since the FDA approved a prescription diet pill. That drug, Roche’s Xenical, has notorious gastrointestinal side-effects. The FDA rejected Vivus’s Qnexa in 2010 over concerns for the safety of pregnant women and the quickening of patients’…