News tagged with diet pills
Family meals remain important through teen years, expert says
As children become teenagers, it may be more challenging to regularly include them in family meals, but doing so is key to heading off such problems as eating disorders, obesity, and inadequate nutrition in adolescence, said ...
Jul 12, 2011 |
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FDA declines to approve Orexigen diet drug
(AP) -- Orexigen Therapeutics Inc. shares plunged nearly 75 percent in pre-market trading Tuesday after U.S. health officials declined to approve the experimental weight loss pill Contrave.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 01, 2011 |
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Panel recommends expanding use of stomach bands
(AP) -- About 12 million more obese Americans could soon qualify for surgery to implant a small, flexible stomach band designed to help them lose weight by dramatically limiting their food intake. The Food ...
Dec 04, 2010 |
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States linking prescription databases, fight abuse
(AP) -- Starting next year, dozens of states will begin knitting together databases to watch prescription drug abuse, from powerful painkillers to diet pills.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 15, 2010 |
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Abbott withdraws diet pill in US, Canada
(AP) -- Abbott Laboratories said Friday it will withdraw its diet pill Meridia in the U.S. and Canada, almost a year after studies showed the drug increases the risk of heart attack and stroke in patients with a history ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 08, 2010 |
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Diet drugs face tough test before FDA
There has never been a magic prescription to help millions of obese Americans lose weight. Whether one is any closer to reality is now under scrutiny.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 17, 2010 |
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Journal editors question sale of diet pill Meridia
(AP) -- Editors of a top medical journal are questioning whether the diet pill Meridia should stay on the market even if it's restricted to people without heart disease.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 01, 2010 |
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Experimental diet pill shows promise, little risk
(AP) -- An experimental diet pill helped about half the people who tried it lose some weight and keep it off a year later, without the heart problems that some earlier drugs caused, a study found.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jul 14, 2010 |
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Study: Exercise improves body image for fit and unfit alike
Attention weekend warriors: the simple act of exercise and not fitness itself can convince you that you look better, a new University of Florida study finds.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 08, 2009 |
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New study identifies risk factors of disordered eating in overweight youth
University of Minnesota Project Eating Among Teens (EAT) researchers have identified factors that may increase overweight adolescents' risk of engaging in extreme weight control behaviors such as self-induced vomiting, the ...
Jul 30, 2009 |
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FDA: Dieters should stop Hydroxycut use now
(AP) -- Government health officials warned dieters and body builders Friday to immediately stop using Hydroxycut, a widely sold supplement linked to cases of serious liver damage and at least one death.
Medicine & Health / Medications
May 01, 2009 |
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Caution: Lose more than weight with imported diet pills
Americans who use illegal diet pills from South America are taking amphetamines without knowing it and seriously risking both their health and their jobs. Physicians need to be made aware of the range of serious side effects ...
Jan 26, 2009 |
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