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'Japan Rapid Weight Loss Diet Pills Yellow' Contains Hidden ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is advising consumers not to purchase or use “Japan Rapid Weight Loss Diet Pills Yellow,” a product for weight loss sold on various websites, such as www.ebay.com, and distributed by Xius [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

FDA to reconsider a diet pill drug

This week the FDA is set to re-consider a diet pill drug it has already rejected. If it's passed, it would be the first new prescription diet pill in 13 years. The drug is called Qnexa, but there are serious health concerns, including [...]

Posted On : Feb, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Orexigen Weight Loss Drug On Track For FDA Approval

Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. said Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration has agreed to a study to revive the company's previously-rejected weight loss drug Contrave. "We have been working with clinical experts, advocacy [...]

Posted On : Sep, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Arena, Eisai Diet Drug Less Concentrated In Human Brain

Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ARNA) and Eisai Co. (ESALY, 4523.TO) said that a study of the diet pill lorcaserin showed that the drug seems to concentrate in the human brain less than it does in rats. The data is part of the companies [...]

Posted On : Aug, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Diet drug Qnexa: Don't get too carried away by new study

The diet drug Qnexa helps obese people with weight-related medical conditions to lose more weight than those who take a dummy pill and could allow some to scale back on medications for diabetes, high blood pressure or cholesterol, accord [...]

Posted On : Apr, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

EnteroMedics' Shares Rise on Optimism about Orexigen's Diet ...

EnteroMedics ETRM saw its shares run up substantially following a Food and Drug Administration panel decision to recommend approval of Orexigen's OREX weight loss drug candidate Contrave. The panel's recommendation was somewhat s [...]

Posted On : Dec, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

Experimental Diet Drug Helped Diabetics Shed Weight, But...

Would-be diet-drug manufacturer Arena Pharmaceuticals and Eisai, its Japanese partner, are out with fresh test results to bolster their case for approval of an experimental weight-loss pill. The latest results: A little more than a [...]

Posted On : Nov, 10 2010 | Comments : 0

Fitness digest: Behind the fat-in-soda ads and elusive diet ...

Diet pills to treat obesity are like unicorns and fairy godmothers - they don't really exist. The FDA scuttled another weight-loss drug this week. Here's another myth - a YouTube video went viral warning that drinking [...]

Posted On : Oct, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Long Odds Seen For Diet Drugs

The FDA's rejection of Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Eisai Co.'s weight-loss drug, lorcaserin, highlights the difficulty in developing medications that would likely be taken by millions of people, many of whom don't have any [...]

Posted On : Oct, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Diet drug Meridia pulled off market

Diet drug Meridia pulled off market Abbott Laboratories on Friday pulled it’s diet drug Meridia off the market in the US at the request of the Food and Drug Administration because the medicaiton increases the risk of heart attack [...]

Posted On : Oct, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Family dinners keep teenagers off drugs--study

Eating as a family not only allows the members to connect and grow together but is a daily investment that can make the kids, especially in their teenage years less susceptible to harmful influences, claims a new study.According to the l [...]

Posted On : Sep, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

Diet Drugs FDA: What You Should Know

Recently, a panel of 16 FDA members voted as to whether some diet drugs, such as Meridia, should stay on the U.S. market or not. Eight panel members voted for the removal of the drug from the market. However, there has been no action tak [...]

Posted On : Sep, 19 2010 | Comments : 0

New diet drug faces U.S. advisers amid risk debate

Winning the panel's support would move the drug, lorcaserin, closer to the U.S. market. The medicine is crucial to the small San Diego-based drugmaker, which was founded in 1997 and has no approved products. Investors have fled [...]

Posted On : Sep, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

FDA report on diet drug gives hope to local firms

Shares of two San Diego companies working on experimental weight-loss drugs got a boost Tuesday from documents released by regulators in advance of a federal review of a third obesity drug. Orexigen shares rose 84 cents, or 20 percent, t [...]