September 22, 2003

Class Action

A department head at Pennington Biomedical Research Center served as an expert witness for the marketers of ephedra, a controversial weight loss supplement being researched at the center. Dr. George Bray, a Boyd Professor at LSU and the chief of the Clinical Obesity section at Pennington, testified for Metabolife, the marketers of ephedra, in a class-action lawsuit in New Orleans.
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Posted by Editor at September 22, 2003 10:36 AM

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