Pill shows new hope in battle against obesity
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NEW ORLEANS -- Tired of riding the all-meat, no-carb, pineapple-only, strictly-soy, green-fluids-on-Tuesdays bandwagons that promise weight loss -- but which either cramp your lifestyle or don&#39;t quite measure up?
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Obesity is considered a major public-health problem, but many scientists are coming to see it as a comparative blessing, given the alternative.
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A two-drug combination pill dramatically reduced deaths among Blacks with heart failure, a landmark finding likely to lead to government approval of the first medication marketed for a specific race.
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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
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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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A new study gives the strongest evidence yet that obesity surgery can cure diabetes.
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Oral contraceptives appear to prevent heart disease and some cancers in women, according to the largest study into the long-term health impact of the Pill.
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Merck has obtained rights to license an experimental drug to treat obesity that has generated scientific interest because it is based on a hormone used by the body to signal that it has eaten enough.
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Nov. 9, 2004 (New Orleans) -- The experimental diet drug Accomplia not only takes off weight and reduces waist size, it also has staying power.
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The first over-the-counter weight-loss pill won approval from U.S. health officials on Wednesday, giving the two-thirds of Americans who are obese or overweight another option to help them shed pounds.
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A whopping 75 million Americans may have something called metabolic syndrome. How Big Pharma turned obesity into a desease and then invented the drugs to cure it. By Thomas Goetz from Wired magazine.
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A drug that blocks a cellular pathway involved in cravings could help people quit smoking and lose weight. That&#39;s the promise of experts who announced the results of a trial at the European Society of Cardiology&#39;s
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A NEW miracle pill that helps people to lose weight and stop smoking could be available within two years, scientists have claimed.
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The contraceptive pill is less likely to work in women who are obese or overweight, according to new research. Scientists from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle found that overweight women
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erck &amp; Company has obtained rights to license an experimental drug to treat obesity that has generated scientific interest because it is based on a hormone used by the body to signal that it has eaten enough.
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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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A contraceptive drug that avoids the side effects of hormonal birth control is on the horizon, say scientists.