Diet drug Qnexa will get a second look Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:04:41 -0800 Diet drugs have failed to impress government health regulators in recent years with several prospective medications being denied approval and another drug taken off the market. Hopes for the first new diet pill in about 13 years now rest with a meeting Wednesday in Washington, D.C., to discuss Qnexa. Diet drug Qnexa should be approved, panel says Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:09:35 -0800 The diet drug Qnexa has cleared a major hurdle toward eventual Food and Drug Administration approval. An independent panel of medical experts who advise the agency voted Wednesday that Qnexa's significant weight-loss benefit outweighed its potential risks. Diet soda tied to heart attack, stroke risks: study Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:53:22 -0800 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Diet soda may benefit the waistline, but a new study suggests that people who drink it every day have a heightened risk of heart attack and stroke. The study, which followed almost 2,600 older adults for a decade, found that those who drank diet soda every day were 44 percent more likely than non-drinkers to suffer a heart attack or stroke. The findings, reported in ... FDA Advisers Recommend New Diet Drug Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:48:19 -0800 Food and Drug Administration advisers voted against the pleas of consumer advocates on Wednesday to recommend approval of what would be the first new diet drug to hit the US market in 13 years. Called Qnexa, the pill is a combination of two older drugs ? one itself a diet pill called phentermine, and an anti-seizure drug that appears to help suppress appetite as part of the combination. Daily diet soda may increase risk of heart attack, stroke: study Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:14:03 -0800 (Reuters) - Diet soda may benefit the waistline, but people who drink it every day may have a heightened risk of heart attack and stroke, according to a new U.S. study. Although the researchers, whose work appeared in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, found that older adults who drank diet soda every day were 44 percent more likely to suffer a heart attack, their research did not prove ... |
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