"I know they're being overpriced because everybody thinks they're magic, and they're selling it as magic, " says James Bose, a professor at Oklahoma State University and executive director of the International Ground Source Heat Pump Association.

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Researchers at Queen's University Belfast have devised a drug which is being hailed as a "magic bullet" to treat Acute Lung Injury (ALI).

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Ernst Schaefer, a nutrition researcher at Tufts University who is involved in Accomplia studies, said none of these obesity drugs are going to be magic bullets.

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