Many pharmaceutical companies continue to research obesity drugs, despite recent issues regarding side effects and halted experiments. "There's a lot of good research in this area going on behind closed doors, but it's not going to show its face for years," ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross says.
ACSH's Dr. Ruth Kava thinks, "It's hard to find an effective weight-loss drug that doesn't have negative side effects" -- possibly because, as ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan says, "The human body doesn't want to lose weight. It wants to survive."