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Former Biggest Loser Contestant Confessed Being Drugged To Lose Weight

By Jenn Loro - May 28, 2016 09:33 AM EDT

NBC’s ‘The Biggest Loser’ is currently under fire following a recent confession by a former Loser saying that contestants were allegedly drugged to lose weight. The confession came about after a controversial report by US National Institutes of Health (NIH) claiming that most former Biggest Loser contestants returned most, if not all, of their original weight after the show.

Scientists Developed Inhalable Ebola Vaccine with Successful Monkey Trials

By Dustin M Braden - Jul 14, 2015 05:17 PM EDT

The study published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation revealed that researchers managed to develop a vaccine for Ebola that can be inhaled, instead of injected. The trials on macaque monkeys which indicated an impressive level of protection against the virus, were also considered to be successful. The next step ahead for researchers will be the human trials, which is expected to take place within the next couple of months, Newsweek reported. Alexander Bukreyev from the Galveston National Laboratory at the University of Texas told Newsweek that the National Institutes of Health has scheduled the vaccine's initial tests on humans.

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