This Heart Drug Also Fights Fat
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Sanofi&#39;s Acomplia lowers cholesterol, trims waistlines, and blocks brain receptors associated with overeating. On the market by 2006?
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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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A successful cancer-fighting drug may also damage the heart, although a researcher says leukemia patients who need Gleevec should not abandon it.
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Blood pressure drugs beta-blockers can help keep arteries from clogging up, researchers said on Monday in a report that helps explain how the drugs prevent heart attack and sudden heart death.
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NEW YORK  - Although it is well established   that the long-term use of beta-blocker drugs, such as Tenormin   and Lopressor, can improve survival and other outcomes after a   heart attack, most patients stop taking them after just a few   months, new research indicates.
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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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Taking a drug that boosts &quot;good&quot; cholesterol and a separate pill that lowers &quot;bad&quot; cholesterol appears to be a more effective weapon against heart disease than taking a single drug, researchers say.
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TUESDAY, Dec. 18 (HealthDay News) -- A new kind of drug designed to lower levels of "bad" low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and reduce heart disease risk has proved safe and effective in a phase II clinical trial, researchers report.
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In both studies, the drug Avandia, made by GlaxoSmithKline, raised risks of heart failure.
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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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A new study suggests that popular cholesterol-lowering drugs like Lipitor may help not just the heart, but the brain as well
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thanks to an amazing new experimental drug. A third of the people taking the drug lost at least 10% of their body weight and were able to keep it off for two years.
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FDA advisory panel gives the nod to its heart drug.
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While being fat increases your chances of a heart attack, some studies suggest a puzzling paradox: Obese people seem to have a better chance of surviving one.
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The anti-impotence drug could be a good treatment for heart failure, US researchers believe.
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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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Statins, which are used to treat high cholesterol, may also fight HIV, a study suggests.