News tagged with 'Diet Drugs'

The FDA is expanding its warning about tainted weight loss products that contain undeclared, active pharmaceutical ingredients. In other words, the ingredients are not mentioned on the label and pose serious health risks including, heart attack, stroke and seizures.

The FDA is issuing a warning about diet pills, especially those with "natural"  or "herbal" ingredients. Many contain potentially dangerous ingredients that are not FDA approved and slipped in under, "supplements" which are not regulated.

Consuming huge amounts of sugar after starvation caused rats to display the same addictive behaviors as you'd see with heroin or cocaine. That may explain why some people crave sugar and cannot stop, even when they know they should.

The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has recommended the suspension of Acomplia (rimonabant) from Sanofi-Aventis. The agency concluded that the benefits of Acomplia no longer outweigh its risks and marketing should be suspended across the European Union (EU).

URGENT NOTICE: In many instances, if you have not filed a complaint you may lose your rights to bring a claim or receive compensation for any valvular heart damage that you sustained from Fen-Phen diet drugs. While there are some exceptions available to class members who timely requested a free echocardiogram under

Italy's Health Ministry announced this week that it will re-introduce the diet drug sibutramine, sold in Europe as Reductil and the United States as Meridia, to the market with specific limitations. In March 2002 the agency suspended the sale of products containing sibutramine after fifty "adverse events" were associa

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently reprimanded Abbott Laboratories for failing to properly report to the agency several deaths linked to its diet drug Meridia. In a letter made public yesterday, the FDA informed Abbott that it improperly reported seven deaths linked to Meridia and failed to inform th

The interest group Public Citizen has asked Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson to bring criminal charges against Abbott Laboratories for illegally withholding information regarding its diet drug Meridia. According to Public Citizen, which obtained its information from an April U.S. Food and Drug Admini

The European Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA) has begun an investigation of Abbott Laboratories' diet drug Meridia. Italian health officials, who suspended the sale of products containing sibutramine, the primary ingredient in Meridia, after fifty "adverse events" were associated with the drug, requested the review.

Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, is asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to immediately ban the anti-obesity drug Meridia, blaming it for twenty-nine deaths and hundreds of cases of serious side effects. In a petition filed with the FDA yesterday, Public Citizen described Meridia as "needlessly

Two patients in Britain taking the anti-obesity drug sibutramine died Friday. The drug is made by Abbott Laboratories and marketed under the name Reductil in Europe and Meridia in the United States. Britain's Department of Health also announced that 212 reports of "suspected adverse reactions have been received in as

The $3.75 billion fen-phen class-action settlement went unchallenged last week by the nearly 300,000 plaintiffs involved. Parties had until January 2, 2002 to petition the Supreme Court to review the settlement. As the deadline passed, no petitions were filed. Attorneys associated with the proceedings say that users

URGENT NOTICE: In many instances, if you have not filed a complaint you may lose your rights to bring a claim or receive compensation for any valvular heart damage that you sustained from Fen-Phen diet drugs. While there are some exceptions available to class members who timely requested a free echocardiogram under

URGENT NOTICE: In many instances, if you have not filed a complaint you may lose your rights to bring a claim or receive compensation for any valvular heart damage that you sustained from Fen-Phen diet drugs. While there are some exceptions available to class members who timely requested a free echocardiogram under

URGENT NOTICE: In many instances, if you have not filed a complaint you may lose your rights to bring a claim or receive compensation for any valvular heart damage that you sustained from Fen-Phen diet drugs. While there are some exceptions available to class members who timely requested a free echocardiogram under