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McKee’s proposed FY2027 budget drops GLP-1 drugs for weight...
27 Jan 2026 20:03 GMT
… , such as the notorious Fen-Phen, yanked from the market … , since the advent of statins,” Nunn said in a phone … 3%.
Ending obesity coverage for GLP-1 obesity drugs could improve the … little more of medications is very small.”
“The pharmaceutical industry, they …
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Is The Beauty a True Story? Is the Beauty Based on a Real Drug or Virus?
22 Jan 2026 05:53 GMT
… from being a government-approved drug treatment to an out-of-control … side effects associated with this medication include sleep disorders, dizziness, restlessness … confirmed any connection between fen-phen or similar drugs and the Beauty, such …
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Margaret Cho reveals horrific side effect from weight-loss drug
09 Jan 2026 02:05 GMT
… the pill was 'orange,' which points to the drug … quit taking the unnamed drug.
Cho famously suffered kidney … heavily-tattooed funnywoman was taking fen-phen, noting: 'It… the nineties, Cho was taking fen-phen (fenfluramine/phentermine), noting: …
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Wegovy pill is not America’s silver bullet
24 Dec 2025 18:23 GMT
… Drugs Association (FDA) has this week approved a Wegovy weight-loss pill … of addiction became undeniable.
Fen-phen came in the Nineties … The most obvious dangers are medical. Nausea, vomiting, and … its predecessors. But pharmaceutical solutions to social and …
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The Evolution of Obesity Drugs: Lessons from a Century of Failures and the GLP-1 Breakthrough
25 Sep 2025 14:25 GMT
… obesity treatments, writing them off as “cosmetic.” As a result, pharmaceutical research into obesity drugs … category evaporated.
Fen-Phen’s collapse hardened … stimulant sold in dietary supplements, became wildly … Wegovy.
Clinical trials showed average weight …
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The Largest Pharmaceutical Recalls Recorded In US History
21 Sep 2025 13:24 GMT
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In 2005, a pharmaceutical called Bextra disappeared from … use of the drug (via Johns Hopkins Medicine). Since then, … , the weight loss drug fen-phen was given FDA approval, and consumers … raced to try it. (Here are some strange diet …
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Weight-loss drugs have a surprising foe: Fat activists
16 Aug 2025 06:28 GMT
… eliminate the need for antidepressants, which can themselves … regardless of weight.
Obesity doctors see rejecting the disease … dedicated to obesity medicine gathered to discuss treatment and prevention, … for profit. Fen-Phen, a 1990s diet drug that was recalled …
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Biocryst sells Europe business; Peter Marks criticizes new FDA vaccine rules
27 Jun 2025 19:56 GMT
… New England Journal of Medicine commentary authored by … FDA division that reviews vaccines. Marks left the FDA’s vaccine … of treatment, its developer, Altimmune, said Thursday. In the trial, … two drugs that made up the scandal-ridden “fen-phen” diet regimen, …
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Magic Pills and the Promise of Weight Loss
06 Jun 2025 12:49 GMT
… drugs for those who have tried other treatments for obesity … pill (reportedly available next year) can ameliorate obesity without fundamental changes in diet … a medical doctor (though I possess a doctorate), so … diets from the 1970s and 1980s to fen-phen drugs …
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From ancient Greece to GLP-1s: The weird and complex history of weight loss drugs
02 Jun 2025 17:16 GMT
… the modern-day medical treatments for obesity,” says Dr. … fen-phen to valvular heart disease led to fen-phen’ … FDA’s blessing when clinical trial data linked the drug … treatment featuring naltrexone (an opioid antagonist) and bupropion (an antidepressant …