Drugmaker Vivus Inc. said that regulators will take another three months to make a decision on its closely-watched obesity drug Qnexa, which could become the first new prescription weight loss pill to reach the market in more than a decade. Vivus said the Food and Drug Administration pushed back its target date to July 17 ...Read More
Drugmaker Vivus Inc. said that regulators will take another three months to make a decision on its closely-watched obesity drug Qnexa, which could become the first new prescription weight loss pill to reach the market in more than a decade. Vivus said the Food and Drug Administration pushed back its target date to July 17 ...Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) — Drugmaker Vivus Inc. said Monday that regulators will take another three months to make a decision on its closely-watched obesity drug Qnexa, which could become the first new prescription weight loss pill to reach the market in more than a decade. Vivus said the Food and Drug Administration pushed back its target ...Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) — The battle of the bulge has been a big, fat failure for U.S. drugmakers. But that hasn’t stopped them from trying. For nearly a century, scientists have struggled to make a diet pill that helps people lose weight without side effects that range from embarrassing digestive issues to dangerous heart problems. Earlier ...Read More
By TIM DARRAGH March 27, 2012 For more than a decade, overweight Americans have been looking for a drug — what some health professionals sarcastically call “the magic pill” — to help in the never-ending battle with the scale. The federal government next month may give a diet drug that it once rejected for its ...Read More
For more than a decade, overweight Americans have been looking for a drug — what some health professionals sarcastically call “the magic pill” — to help in the never-ending battle with the scale. The federal government next month may give a diet drug that it once rejected for its side effects a shot at becoming ...Read More
For more than a decade, overweight Americans have been looking for a drug — what some health professionals sarcastically call “the magic pill” — to help in the never-ending battle with the scale. The federal government next month may give a diet drug that it once rejected for its side effects a shot at becoming ...Read More
A dreamy diet pill that someday allows people to eat as much as they want without gaining weight seems possible, based on new research into certain brain chemicals that influence how quickly we burn fat. Scientists used lab mice to turn down brain levels of endocannabinoids, chemicals produced by our bodies that are similar in ...Read More
Two Kardashian sisters have been slapped with a $5 million lawsuit. Khloe and Kim are spokes models for the diet pill “Quick Trim,” but a handful of people who used the supplement say it didn’t work. Both Kardashian sisters claim they lost 15 pounds by taking Quick Trim, but the dieters who filed the lawsuit ...Read More
So is a lot of the umbrage. MT @andylevy: any apology @joanwalsh makes for her Mormon tweet will be completely disingenuous