Solvay, Bristol obesity drug advances in trials
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A new anti-obesity drug that works in the same way as Sanofi-Aventis's Acomplia has advanced in clinical trials, triggering a $25 million payment to Belgian drugs, chemicals and plastics maker Solvay.
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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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Makers of drugs to treat obesity, depression and many other conditions are being asked for the first time to include suicide assessments in their clinical trials.
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ALBANY, NY The state is releasing a guide to insurance coverage of obesity treatment today. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer says the guide was developed after many consumers complained to his office that it
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NEW YORK  - Treatment with pramlintide, which is approved in the US for lowering blood sugar in people with diabetes, leads to progressive weight loss in obese subjects, according to researchers.
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The biggest test yet of an experimental drug that offers the fairy-tale promise of helping people lose weight and quit smoking found that it helped people not only drop
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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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Â· Sequencing may help tackle obesity and cancerÂ· Patients could have tests before having children
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NEW YORK  - The results of a small study  published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry suggest that  the epilepsy drug topiramate may provide long-term benefits for  people with binge-eating disorder and obesity.
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A new diet drug has helped people lose nearly four times as much weight as a placebo in an eagerly awaited two-year trial, researchers reported yesterday.
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A French village is pioneering a new approach to tackling the growing problem with obesity.
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Merck has obtained rights to license an experimental anti-obesity drug that is based on a hormone the body uses to signal that it has eaten enough.
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Human trials of an experimental  treatment for obesity derived from cannabis, which is commonly  associated with stimulating hunger, are scheduled to begin in  the second half of this year, Britain's GW Pharmaceuticals Plc  announced Tuesday.
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A new obesity wonder drug, Acomplia (rimonabant), makes patients lose 10% of their body weight, according to clinical trials carried out by Sanofi-Aventis, the third largest pharmaceutical company in the world.
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An Australian company announced they have a pill that takes care of your bulge, and they said it is free of side effects. The company Metabolic Pharmaceuticals said the drug works by burning fat.
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Eyeing a potential gold mine in the global obesity epidemic, the pharmaceutical industry has launched a massive drive to develop new diet pills and an intense campaign to persuade
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Neurocrine resubmits a marketing application for its lead drug.