Browsing: obesity drugs

New FDA-approved anti-obesity drugs, novel devices, implants, and surgical approaches have all hit the market but do they work and are they safe? Is a combination of diet and exercise better than drugs? 

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a supplemental New Drug Application for Xenical (obesity management drug) regarding new…

The conflict created by doctors selling the drugs they prescribe is self-evident — the temptation to over-prescribe can be too…

Despite the disastrous outcomes of some diet drugs — including Redux (aka Fen-Phen) in 1996 and Meridia (Sibutramine) in 2003,…

Over the past six months, we at MedShadow Foundation have published the following information on the obesity epidemic: packaging of…