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At the Johor State Assembly: 13 slimming products taken off the ...: New Straits Times - ... from Ng See Tiong (BN-Parit Yaani), state Local Government and Health Committee chairman Datuk Halimah Mohd Sadique said the registration of 13 slimming products was cancelled as some of them contained fenfluramine, dexfenfluramine and sibutramine ...
England spending 38m a year on NHS obesity drugs: Daily Mail - They analysed prescribing data for two anti-obesity drugs, orlistat and sibutramine, in England between 1998 and 2005. The results, published in the Journal of Public Health, showed a 36-fold rise in orlistat usage and a four-fold rise in sibutramine ...
HEALTH JOURNAL: Wall Street Journal - Pharmacies are reporting brisk sales of Alli (pronounced like the noun "ally"), which is sold by drug maker GlaxoSmithKline and is the first over-the-counter diet drug to win FDA approval. Unlike other prescription weight-loss drugs such as Meridia ...
Weight Management Drugs: WOOD - A new medication, sibutramine (Meridia), blocks the uptake of both serotonin and norepinephrine. Dangers Of Phenypropanolamine Phenylpropanolamine (PPA), an "amphetamine-like" substance, is one of two ingredients (the other is benzocaine) in the ...
Bogus Goods Cheap, May Be Harmful: INS News - Testing revealed that none of the capsules contained the active ingredient in Xenical -- though one did include a drug found in Meridia, a competing medication, the FDA said. Other capsules contained nothing more than talc and starch. Meanwhile, the ...
Diet Drug: Lose Weight, Possibly Soil Self: wnbc.com - There currently are two FDA-approved prescription drugs for the long-term treatment of obesity: Meridia, an appetite suppressant, and Xenical, which limits the amount of fat the body can absorb. Sales of Alli, a lower-dose version of Xenical that won ...
Federal panel rejects Sanofi-Aventis weight-loss drug: NW Florida Daily News - Meridia, an appetite suppressant, and Xenical, which limits the amount of fat the body can absorb. Sales of Alli, a lower-dose version of Xenical that won't require a prescription, start this week. Heart problems led to the withdrawal of the diet drug ...
FDA experts reject Sanofi diet drug: CNN Money - If Zimulti does get approved, it would compete with Abbott's (up $0.85 to $54.19, Charts , Fortune 500 ) Meridia, which totaled $345 million in 2006 sales, and Roche's over-the-counter Xenical. Companies generally do not break out sales for OTC drugs ...
1st OTC diet pill with OK from FDA in stores Friday: Arizona Daily Star - Only two FDA-approved weight-loss drugs, Orlistat and Meridia, are currently on the market. Both are available only with a prescription.
Obesity pill increases suicidal thoughts: New Scientist - Industry experts said it was hard to predict what the panel would decide. Karl Heinz Koch, an analyst from investment bank Vontobel, noted that other weight-loss drugs – Roche AG's Xenical and Abbott Laboratories' Meridia – were approved even ...

Public Urged Not To Consume Health Product With Western Drug ...: eMaxHealth.com - A DH spokesman said that a sample of the product taken to the Government Laboratory for testing was today found to have contained western drug ingredients – dexamethasone acetate and sibutramine, as well as phenolphthalein. Dexamethasone acetate is ...
FDA warns of sites selling bogus drugs: South Bend Tribune - ... Xenical (used for weight loss) on two sites -- Brandpills.com and Pillspharm.com, according to the FDA. None of the medications contained orlistat, the active ingredient in Xenical, and one contained sibutramine, the active ingredient in Meridia ...
Anti-obesity Drug Claims Disputed: Guardian Unlimited - The DTB researchers also said the drug had not been effectively compared with other, cheaper drugs for weight loss. They cited Xenical (orlistat) and Reductil (sibutramine), which cost less and are approved for use on the NHS. © Copyright Press ...
Doubts over obesity pill claims: BBC News - ... trials rimonabant had no effect on levels of "bad" cholesterol, and little or no effect on blood pressure. It said the drug had not been effectively compared with other, cheaper weight loss drugs, such as Xenical (orlistat) and Reductil (sibutramine ...
TODAY: Do diet pills work?: MSNBC - The first is sibutramine (brand name Meridia). It suppresses appetite by inhibiting levels of certain neurotransmitters (the specific ones are norepinephrine, serotonin, and dopamine). When Meridia was combined with diet, exercise, and behavioral ...
GPs accused of ignoring obesity drug side effects: This is London - Prescriptions for the two main anti- obesity medicines, orlistat and sibutramine - marketed as Xenical and Reductil - have soared in recent years. Annual orlistat prescriptions rose from 17,800 to 646,700 between 1998 and 2005 - a 36-fold ...
GAITHERSBURG, Maryland: Examiner - 5 days ago - Gaithersburg-based Gene Logic, a biopharmaceutical drug-development firm, announced it has agreed to partner with pharmaceutical giant Abbott Laboratories Inc. Illinois-based Abbott manufactures such drugs as Synthroid, Humira, Meridia ...
NHA alert against Phyto Shape: Peninsula - Our range of products is 100 per cent natural and is guaranteed to have no side effects whatsoever.” However, the NHA has issued its latest directive as Phyto Shape contains a chemical ingredient called sibutramine which is dangerous to health ...
FDA Warns of Counterfeit Medications from Online Pharmacies: HealthCentral.com - In this case, consumers ordered the weight loss Xenical, but the tablets they received contained the active ingredient in Meridia. The two medications are not interchangeable, and there was potential harm to some consumers. It should be noted that ...
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