Discusses the recall of the anti-obesity drugs fenfluramine (Pondimin) and dexfenfluramine (Redux). Inconclusive evidence of damage to heart valves in users of the drugs; Cost to American Home Products, the conglomerate that makes Pondimin and distributes Redux, of the recall; Pondimin's ...
4.Since weight-loss drugs have a long and sordid history of being deadly (remember fen-phen? 5.The long-term story has yet to be written, and many people will recall, for example, that fen-phen, the 1990′s miracle weight loss drugs, were eventually taken off the market after evidence...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA ) issued a recall of fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine in 1997 after the diet drugs were linked with heart valve damage and Primary Pulmonary Hypertension (PPH). The FDA reported that, although Fenfluramine and phentermine were approved in the 1950s asindi...