On the 24 January 2010, doctors and pharmacists were ordered to stop handing out the weight loss drug Reductil. In 2009, over 86,000 patients in the UK took Reductil, also known as Sibutramine.
The European Medicines Agency ordered this drastic action amidst fears that the slimming pill increased the risk of non-fatal heart attacks and strokes. [...]
Reports have been published in British fashion magazine Grazia that the Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie is addicted to diet pills. Sources on her latest film Salt have told the best-selling weekly glossy that that the star, widely feted as one of the most beautiful women in the world, takes the drugs to boost her energy.
The [...]
The supermodel Kate Moss had been vehemently criticised for making a comment that campaigners believe could encourage anorexia. Speaking to fashion news website WWD about any mottos she had, Moss was quoted as saying: “There are loads. There’s, ‘Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.’
Though she did qualify this by adding, “You try to remember, [...]
The Federal Food and Drug Adminstration has issued an urgent recall after it was discovered that a supposedly herbal diet pill contained the prescription-only medication Reductil and ingredients believed to cause cancer.
The slimming tablets are called Pai You Guo and are manufactured by GMP Herbal Products. The FDa carried out laboratory analysis on the product, [...]
A study has suggested that following a weight loss program for a period can prevent the development of diabetes for up to a decade.
Scientists followed almost 3,000 overweight people who agreed to take part in a three-year program to prevent diabetes. Initially, the volunteers were split into three groups, one which followed the weight loss [...]
There is hope that a new diet pill may soon hit the market after drug development firm Vivus announced very promising results from their late-stage trial into their slimming pill Qnexa.
They said that following two randomised Stage III trials they were confident that their medication met the benchmarks demanded by the FDA for approval and [...]
A teenage girl has been admitted to hospital after taking an illegal diet pills which made her suicidal. A warning has been issued by Hong Kong health officials about the drugs, named ‘Show Party.’
The 17-year old girl bought the slimming pills on the internet to encourage rapid weight loss but after she started taking them [...]
Obese patients searching for weight loss solutions will be heartened to hear that a clinical trial into a new slimming drug has released extremely promising results – but perhaps less excited by the news that it requires users to administer a daily injection.
The medication is called liraglutide and originally was developed to treat diabetics. Sold [...]
There has been widespread alarm after new statistics showed that the number of prescriptions of the weightloss drugs Xenical and Reductil being made for children has risen 15-fold over the past 10 years.
Researchers from University College London believe that some 1,300 young people are being prescribed orlistat or sibutramine – the medical name for Xenical [...]
