People who stayed on a 7.2 milligram weekly dose of semaglutide lost around 20% of their body weight over 72 weeks.

For Carol Gordon, weight loss has been a lifelong mission. Back in the 1990s, she took fen-phen, the combination of fenfluramine and phentermine that produced the marked weight loss we now expect ...

Doty recounted the long list of the ways she tried—and failed—to lose weight over the years: Richard Simmons, Weight Watchers, ‘90s fad drug fen-phen, lap band surgery, Tae Bo, Atkins ...

When drugmakers pulled the weight-loss drug fen-phen off the market in 1997, my mom was devastated. Not because the FDA warned that the drug could severely damage her heart or even possibly kill her, ...

A recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that women who followed a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra ...

Why not? For starters, it’s no crime to entertain a healthy ambivalence about heavily hyped wonder drugs, especially in the weight-loss sphere. (Remember fen-phen?) I am, after all, the guy who ...

Burke and Sager rescinded the free-for-life offer in 1997 when customers who lost so much weight ... fen-phen and fad diets started demanding suit remakes, not simple tailoring, causing the store ...

Medicare’s block on obesity medication coverage can be traced back to a safety scandal in the 1990s when a widely-used weight-loss regimen called ‘fen-phen’ was shown to cause potentially ...