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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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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There's encouraging news about an enzyme replacement drug.
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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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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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Taking one drug to raise "good" cholesterol and one to lower bad cholesterol can slow the progression of heart disease more effectively than either medicine alone, a new study has found.
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Clot-busting drugs that are normally used to treat heart disease could also help women with endometriosis, a painful condition of the womb.
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Curbing inflammation of the arteries appears to be just as important for fighting heart disease as lowering cholesterol, according to a pair of new studies.
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Two drugs provide good results in preliminary trials.
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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 impotence drug Viagra may also  help prevent the abnormal growth of the heart seen in some  types of heart disease, researchers reported on Sunday.
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An experimental Sanofi-Aventis diet  drug helped people lose much more weight than a placebo in an  eagerly anticipated two-year trial, researchers said on  Tuesday.
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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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A molecule that promotes the growth of the young heart shows promise as a treatment for heart attack in animal studies and is being readied for human trials, researchers report.
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An aggressive, high-dose regimen of cholesterol-lowering drugs within days after a heart attack may reduce further heart problems, says a new large-scale study.
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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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The cholesterol drug Vytorin became known for its commercials showing people who look oddly similar to foods like tacos and banana cream pie. But now Vytorin is getting attention that is anything but funny.