Calls for caution on obesity drug
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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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Scientists in the United States and Great Britain are calling for a fresh look at Celebrex and other medications similar to Vioxx, the heavily advertised arthritis drug pulled from the market last week after a study suggested it doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
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NEW YORK  - There is some evidence that  various types of drugs used to treat high blood pressure could  hasten or impede the development of type 2 diabetes, but the  latest findings don't support that idea.
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Concern over growing levels of obesity has sparked a lively debate among food sector professionals and health experts about how to halt a trend that is medically and economically harmful.
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Weighing the risks of Avandia, a diabetes drug, against its benefits is a difficult task.
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A pair of Food and Drug Administration advisory panels called yesterday for new warnings for the widely used diabetes drug Avandia because of evidence that it significantly raises the risk of heart attack, but they stopped short of recommending that the drug be pulled from the market, as some FDA...
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The U.S. Food and Drug  Administration warned GlaxoSmithKline Plc  on Thursday over  misleading advertisements touting its hypertension drug called  Coreg.
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Scrutiny of other pain relievers urged over fear they, too, may lead to heart problems. By Marilynn Marchione. Momentum was growing for a fresh look at the safety of Celebrex and other pain relievers as key
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To 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, they have heard from news reports and word of mouth.
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Doctors in Hong Kong have been prescribing a slimming drug indiscriminately to women desperate to lose weight, a group of pharmacists said on Friday, warning of an increased risk of stroke if the practice is not stopped.
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The government should impose "traffic light" labeling to warn consumers about obesity-causing food and drink products if New Zealand companies won't do it voluntarily, a parliamentary committee said Friday.
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A leading doctor expressed concerns about the heart risks of GlaxoSmithKline Plc's diabetes drug Avandia in a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seven years ago.
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The U.S. National Institutes of  Health said on Tuesday it was launching a systematic campaign  to fight obesity, which now affects close to two-thirds of the  U.S. population and threatens to overtake smoking as the  leading cause of death.
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counting carbs, watching kilos, and keeping an uneasy eye on the growing list of health problems linked with obesity. But it&#39;s not just the number
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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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WASHINGTON &#151; Safety concerns about a GlaxoSmithKline diabetes drug prompted some Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday to rebuke the Food and Drug Administration and call for increased regulation of the pharmaceutical industry.
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Patients who took a Sanofi-Aventis  SA obesity pill in clinical trials were more likely to report  suicidal thoughts or actions, U.S. drug reviewers said in an  analysis released on Monday.