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Medical News: Novel Weight-Loss Pill Helps Shed Pounds - in Primary Care, Obesity from MedPage Today


serotonergic agonists fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine -- was low and similar with lorcaserin (2.7%) and placebo (2.3%) after one year (P=0.70). ...
Law Enforcement Briefs | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger


Arledge was convicted in federal court in 2007 for swindling a pharmaceutical company out of millions over the diet drug Fen-Phen. He was sentenced to six years for his role in the scheme, which netted more than $6 million from ...
Expect FDA drug approval & weight loss: New fen-phen type diet pill Lorcaserin proves safe


The new fen-phen, Lorcaserin proves safe and waits for FDA approval as the new weight loss pill on the market. Stock from manufacturer, Arena Pharmaceuticals soars with the news. (License: Creative Commons Attribution) Related articles Beverage ban spreads: First a soda ban now ...
Busted: Wyeth Used Ghostwriters To Place Over 40 "Scientific" Articles In Medical Journals


The Prempro case is not Wyeth's first ghostwriting scandal; the company was previously forced to pay $21 billion in lawsuits over the diet drug fen-phen, ...
TV Review: ABC Family's New Fat Camp Drama, 'Huge' - Newsweek


herself as the camp's underground junk-food pimp, selling Twinkies and Yo-Yos to starving fat kids as desperate as skinny girls popping fen-phen. ...


Roberts, Long and two other friends apparently contracted pulmonary hypertension as a result of taking Fen-Phen for weight reduction. ...
Laws, Life, and Legal Matters - Court Cases and Legal Information at Leagle.com - All Federal and State Appeals Court Cases in One Search


IN RE: DIET DRUGS (PHENTERMINE/FENFLURAMINE/DEXFENFLURAMINE) PRODUCT LIABILITY LITIGATION Sharon Bridgewater; Betty Brown-Riddle; Virginia Brutto; Dorothy Bryson; Randy Chance; Mary Daley; Bethany Diggs; Nancy Femmer; Lorraine Fengel; Karen George; Viola Gierse; Jeanne Glardon; Diane ...
Primary Pulmonary Hypertension and Secondary Pulmonary Hypertension


Since Fen/Phen and Redux, anti-obesity type drugs, were removed from the market there have been very few cases occurring from the use of those kind of drugs . But there are some drugs used on the street such as methamphetamines and cocaine that may cause severe ...
Laws, Life, and Legal Matters - Court Cases and Legal Information at Leagle.com - All Federal and State Appeals Court Cases in One Search


The court also included in the marital estate the Fen-Phen settlement LaMoine received in 2001, the Social Security disability overpayment and Michael's ...
Sacred Journey hits another bump in the legal system | Kansan.com


The FDA removed fenfluramine, more commonly known as Fen-Phen, from the market in 1997 because of the potential risk to the heart. Rhonda Janke, an associate professor of horticulture at Kansas State University, said she wasn’t familiar with the ...


la dexfenfluramine (Isoméride) et la fenfluramine (Pondéral) qui a attiré l'attention des cliniciens » expliquait le Dr Irène Frachon (Pneumologue, ...
La Jornada en Internet


Vivus está intentando mejorar la famosa combinación de fenfluramina-fentermina (conocida como fen-phen en inglés), que fue retirada del mercado en 1997, luego de que se halló que dañaba el corazón y causaba casos a veces fatales de hipertensión pulmonar. ...
Obesity drug tied to heart risks


One of the “fen/phen” drugs once widely prescribed to help fight obesity has been tied to heart valve damage that develops years after a person has stopped taking it, a new study reports. The appetite suppressant fenfluramine has been banned in the United States ...
Weight Loss Pill Also Lowers Blood Pressure - CBS News


Phentermine was once widely prescribed as the "phen" part of the fen-phen weight loss combo that shot to fame in the mid-1990s and then fell from grace after its use was linked to pulmonary hypertension - high blood pressure in the lungs - and heart valve ...
Is There a Viral Cause for Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension? : Aetiology


PH caused by diet medications like Fen-Phen has been widely publicized. One infectious agent, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), has been shown to be an independent risk factor for pulmonary hypertension, but neither the virus nor its proteins have been demonstrated in the pulmonary ...
CEO FORUM Orlich on future of reinsurance | 07052010 | Reactions - Global Insurance


From asbestos to Fen-phen, from Enron to the internet bubble, casualty pricing has mirrored the stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Yet casualty pricing has never quite made it to closure. Does reinsurance have a future? ...
UAB study finds drug helps weight, blood pressure | al.com


a combination of the anti-seizure drug topiramate and phentermine, the appetite suppressant best known for being a component in the diet drug Fen-Phen. The federal Food and Drug Administration re­called the other half of that medication, fenfluramine, when some users developed heart-valve ...
Qnexa weight loss drug lowers blood pressure: study | Reuters

TheHeart.Org
Vivus is trying to improve on the notorious "fen-phen" combination pulled off the market in 1997 after it was found to damage the heart and cause sometimes fatal cases of pulmonary hypertension. IMPROVING HEALTH Fen-phen combined fenfluramine and phentermine. Phentermine, ...
Courthouse News Service


Also subject to mandatory e-filing are cases involving asbestos, Fen-Phen, mercury and lead, silicosis, welding rods, medical malpractice, legal malpractice , torts, personal injury cases and civil cases with four or more parties.      The scope of cases that must ...
Obesity Capsule From Gelesis, Made to Swell Up in the Stomach, Passes First Human Trial | Xconomy


A few biotech companies are racing to win FDA approval of new drugs, but Big Pharma companies have tread cautiously in this field since the fen-phen debacle of the ’90s. Gastric bypass surgery to shrink the stomach can help people, although the procedure carries significant risks. ...
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