As her experiments controlled for both diet and exercise, she thinks fetal exposure to thedrug must play a role in the fattening that was evident later in life.
The school also acknowledged last year that college sports' governing body had inquired into old allegations that players were allowed to practice and play despite being in violation of the school's drug policy.
It helps Bristol-Myers Squibb play in the emerging hepatitis C market by giving the company full control of thedrugthe two firms were developing together.
Though Acomplia was initially designed as a weight-loss drug, Sanofi researchers had found by 2001 that the affected receptors play a role in how the body processes fat.
While pharmaceutical companies are not the sole parties to blame when drug supply chains break down, they certainly play a role by relying almost completely on local aid and governmental organizations to distribute drugs.
Thedrug is a bioengineered antibody to a crucial natural protein called Rank-ligand that appears to play a central role in initiating the bone breakdown process.