News tagged with 'Sibutramine Hydrochloride'

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