Can drilling electrodes into your brain help you lose weight?

Just how desperate are you to lose weight - desperate enough to have electrodes implanted in your brain? That's the latest approach to tackling obesity now being tested.

With experts warning of an obesity epidemic, drugs companies and medics have been working on newer and better ways to tackle weight gain.

Most recently, the focus has been on prescription medicines, with the development of pills such as Alli, which work by reducing the amount of fat your body absorbs. Click here for full article.