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UCB's non-cannabis drug for severe epilepsy gets NHS okay
20 Feb 2025 16:52 GMT
… Epidyolex.
Professor Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said … months before starting treatment.
Fenfluramine is an old drug and achieved some … 1990s as half of the fen-phen weight-loss therapy, which was … problems in its clinical trials.
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DOGE for the FDA
07 Feb 2025 12:56 GMT
… the Fen-Phen Scandal, where a popular weight loss drug caused … the FDA.
Medical history is replete with stories of trial and … with the polio vaccine; swine flu vaccines linked to Guillain … drugs in human trials, but oftentimes it is the pharmaceutical …
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FDA Drug Reviewer Alerts New Administration to Agency Misconduct and Prescription Drug Dangers
28 Jan 2025 00:09 GMT
… , even deadly risks to patients.
“Fen-Phen“ like toxicities from antipsychotics like … scientific and medical expertise and knowledge of FDA laws and drug kinetics and … information from eHealthMe, a clinical trial database designed to impart more …
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Opinion: Former Trump health official: Medicare should cover Wegovy — but not negotiate its price
18 Jan 2025 00:25 GMT
… for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the FDA … for unproven drugs like Dexatrim and fen-phen, not … Medicare coverage of obesity medication would spike federal spending. However, CBO assumed drug … substantially change their diets and curtail calorie …
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Medicare should cover anti-obesity drugs
04 Jan 2025 00:02 GMT
… that Medicare and Medicaid patients have access to these medicines.
Covering obesity medication would … 502 after they began treatment with the anti-obesity drug semaglutide.
Importantly, the … concerns of several older drugs, such as fen-phen, and the notion …
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They may be ‘miracle’ drugs, but obesity meds call for a team approach
03 Jan 2025 11:21 GMT
… control diabetes, the powerful treatments require particular attention to … diabetes start on these medications, the dietitian, diabetes educator, or … the 1990s, she took fen-phen, the combination of … now expect from newer obesity drugs. But phen-fen was …
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Women Bond Over Using Weight Loss Drugs and Become Best Friends: ‘We’re Each Other’s Biggest Cheerleaders’
01 Jan 2025 14:16 GMT
… Simmons, Weight Watchers, ‘90s fad drug fen-phen, lap band surgery, Tae Bo … says, it’s different. “This medication has given me my life … she went on her first diet and remembers telling her … and both have changed their diets to incorporate more protein and …
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Biden grants clemency to Kentucky fen-phen attorney who scammed clients
23 Dec 2024 20:29 GMT
… of a lawsuit over the diet drug fen-phen, which was pulled from the … E.J. Walbourn during the trial. “The linchpin of the United … like I lost out on treatment I could have gotten, had … able to see the best doctors. My life will never be …
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President Biden grants clemency to convicted attorney in Kentucky's scandalous fen-phen case
16 Dec 2024 22:54 GMT
… from a settlement involving the diet drug fen-phen was granted clemency by President … of fen-phen, American Home Products.
According to the Associated Press, fen-phen was … heart problems related to the drug.
Mills was acquitted of the …
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Could weight-loss drugs treat other chronic diseases?
12 Dec 2024 07:21 GMT
… drug abuse — the first pharmaceutical group to do so.
“These medicines … treatments for obesity itself came with dangerous side effects. The “fen-phen … weight loss.
Recent trials exploring the effects of … chief executive of Danish biotech Zealand Pharma, which …