Weight-loss drug helped shed pounds, tummy fat
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An experimental anti-obesity drug was shown to help people lose weight in the first year, and keep it off in the second, researchers said Tuesday.
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NEW YORK To people who have struggled for a lifetime to lose weight, the new drug called rimonabant sounds like a dream come true.
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TRENTON, N.J. - Could squirting a little medicine up the nose before mealtime be the Holy Grail for people trying to shed pounds? Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co...
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NEW YORK  - Obese subjects ate nearly 1,000 fewer calories per day when they injected pramlintide, a drug approved for the treatment of insulin-dependent diabetes, before every meal, a new study shows.
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Dec. 13 - An Australian company says they&#39;ve developed a fat burning pill that is proving to be successful. Australian biotech group Metabolic Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
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Australian biotech group Metabolic  Pharmaceuticals Ltd. said on Monday a clinical trial showed its  new weight-loss drug was effective and free of side effects,  sending its shares soaring 28 percent.
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An experimental diet drug helped  people lose nearly four times as much weight as a placebo in an  eagerly anticipated two-year trial, researchers said on  Tuesday.
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Australian biotech group Metabolic Pharmaceuticals Ltd. said on Monday a clinical trial showed its new weight-loss drug was effective and free of side effects, sending its shares soaring 28 percent.
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The news media and millions of Americans who are overweight are agog about the new anti-obesity drug Acomplia.The drug, under development by Sanofi-Aventis SA, the French pharmaceutical company, is touted as a way to fight obesity and help people stop
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The drug toremifene, used to treat breast cancer in women, has been found to also reduce the incidence of prostate cancer in men at risk for the disease.
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Dieters got a new tool Wednesday to help them take off the extra pounds &#151; the first government-approved nonprescription diet pill. The Food and Drug Administration said the fat-blocking weight-loss pill orlistat, which has been available by prescription, can be sold in a reduced-strength version over the counter.
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An experimental wonder drug, Rimonabant, helps you lose weight, quit smoking and it also helps protect your heart. Trials have shown that 33% of people on Rimonabant lost 10% of body weight and kept their
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NEW ORLEANS - An experimental pill that offers the promise of helping people lose weight and quit smoking has raised more expectations.
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A once-a-day pill that helps people to lose weight and stop smoking could be available within two years. The drug, rimonabant, works on a newly discovered system in the brain that is involved
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Respite from the diet roller coaster may come in the form of an experimental pill. And because the pill also targets the brain&#39;s pleasure center - the first diet pill to do so - it&#39;s showing some promise in helping smokers kick cigarettes.
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Two drugs provide good results in preliminary trials.
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o people who have struggled for a lifetime to lose weight, the new drug called rimonabant sounds like a dream come true. It will make a person uninterested in fattening foods