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.
Posted by Editor at September 22, 2003 01:57 PM