Weintraub’s work testing fen-phen on his obese patients appeared to confirm the theory, showing that people taking the combo ...

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

A short-lived weight loss medication emerged in the 1990s with the introduction of fen-phen—the combination of fenfluramine with phentermine. Evidence linking fen-phen to valvular heart disease ...

The fear is understandable. The much-touted combination of weight loss drugs called fen-phen-- phentermine and another drug, fenfluramine -- was found to cause dangerous damage to the heart valves ...

When drugmakers pulled the weight-loss drug fen-phen off the market in 1997, my mom was devastated. Not because the FDA ...

It became part of the fen-phen drug combination that was popular in the ... With obesity rates climbing, it remains one of the most widely prescribed weight loss medications. Phentermine primarily ...

Compounded by the equally sudden banning of the weight loss drug, phen-fen (phentermine-fenfluramine), in 1997 due to increases in cardiovascular risks, a mushroom cloud effect fell across the ...

In the 1990s, another untested weight loss cocktail nicknamed fen-phen started taking off. An appetite suppressant called sibutramine, marketed as Meridia, was recalled by the FDA in 2010 after ...

Doty has a 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 ...

Jelly Roll, Jessica Simpson and Kathy Bates are just some of the stars who have dramatically transformed through their weight-loss journeys ... was something called Fen-Phen, and we’re like ...