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MIGRAINE medicines can curb appetite and ward off obesity.

U.S. scientists found obese mice ate less and lost weight when given a daily dose of triptans, a treatment for migraine. Those given frovatriptan lost 3.6 per cent of their weight, on average, in less than a month, which the researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Centre say was ‘impressive’. They suspect triptans target the serotonin 1B receptor, a protein thought to play a role in appetite.