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Fen-Phen Again? Why Ozempic and New Weight-Loss Drugs Are Different
Perhaps the most infamous example is the drug combination fen-phen, which was taken off the market in the late 1990s after it was found to raise the risk of severe, even life-threatening heart ...
Weight Loss Drug Misuse? Study Reveals 25% Adults Opt for it Without Prescription
In a recent study conducted by a team from The Ohio State University, US, it was revealed that a staggering 25% of adults, or ...
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Weight Loss With Medication
The fear is understandable. The much-touted combination of weight loss drugs called fen-phen-- phentermine and another drug, fenfluramine -- was found to cause dangerous damage to the heart valves ...
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Topic: Shirley Cunningham
A lawyer who represented people injured by the diet drug fen-phen should be disbarred for violating ethics rules, a Kentucky hearing officer has recommended. Attorneys William Gallion and Shirley ...
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Athletes taking a powder Creatine: Though the…
The burden of proof is on us, where, in the case of a new drug, it would be on the manufacturer ... such as the diet pills popularly known as fen-phen. “That is a relatively small number ...
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Qsymia - Uses, Side Effects, and More
What is Qsymia used for? Qsymia (phentermine/topiramate) is used to help people with obesity or people who are overweight with medical problems like high blood ...
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Topic: William Gallion
The Kentucky Bar Association wants top plaintiff attorney Stan Chesley disbarred for life for his role in fen-phen diet-drug cases. Lawyers say a Kentucky court's forfeiture order will make it ...
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Meet the hard-partying lawyers who get negligent companies to cough up billions
Opioid prescriptions have fallen, asbestos has been phased out, and dangerous drugs like fen-phen have been pulled largely because of mass-tort lawsuits. Johnson & Johnson is making its baby ...
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Anorexigens and Pulmonary Hypertension in the United States
the use of fenfluramine and phentermine together ("fen-phen") was gaining in popularity, and cases of PPH associated with these drugs soon appeared. [10] Although the IPPHS had shown that the risk ...
Business Insider14d
Strippers and settlements
Opioid prescriptions have fallen, asbestos has been phased out, and dangerous drugs like fen-phen have been pulled largely because of mass-tort lawsuits. Johnson & Johnson is making its baby ...
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Adipex-p
Consider the abuse potential of phentermine when evaluating the desirability of including the drug as part of a weight reduction program. Adipex-P is contraindicated during pregnancy because ...