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2010/8/23

OTC Diet pills, Fast Growing Drug in the market

@ 02:23 AM (17 months, 13 days ago)
People who have the mind to lose weight can do a workout at the gym or diets. These two are the main things that can help you to lose your weight.  If this does not work, diet pills may be the best solution for all those who want to reduce. A person may use hundreds or OTC (Over the Counter pills), diet pills, such as market is flooded with it. Well, this may seem to be hard for customers to choose the most reliable and credible pills. So, it is always advisable to refer to a reliable doctor or pharmacist for a pill or by selecting the best for you.

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2010/8/22

A complete guide for Diet pills

@ 11:32 AM (17 months, 13 days ago)

Do you want to loose weight? Can't wait for too long? Well if you want to loose weight without taking any kind of physical stress and starving yourself, the best option is diet pills. Many people prefer diet pills better than going through any kind of physical stress. There are many kinds of diet pills available in the market like the Prescription Diet Pills; Over the Counter pills, Non-Prescription Diet Pills, Thermogenic diet pills, Fat Blockers, herbal diet pills are also available nowadays.

You must be wondering how a diet pills actually works without sweating out at the gym or starving to death? Actually diet pills prevent the fat from being digested by your body and increases your metabolism. Diet pills basically serve the main purpose of loosing a lot of weight in a short period of time. No need of going through physical stress for years to achieve the desired figure or physic and starve yourself.

Before using diet pills you must be aware of the type and quality of the diet pills. You cannot use any diet pill available in the market. You need to know how they can be used safely, how long they are to be used, how are they to be consumed, and how many at a time etc.

The diet pills are divided in to two main parts the counter diet pills and the Prescribed diet pills. The prescribed diet pills and weight loss pills are tested, examined and clinically verified and confirmed and often used where obesity exists on a higher scale making the body deteriorate, leading to death. The herbal diet pills are also in great demand due to their herbal and natural ingredients which are extracted from plants. The fat blocker and calorie burner diet pills function even whilst sleeping.

Diet pills usually act as appetite suppressants, thus helping in controlling the craving for food. The diet pills can be highly efficient for people combating obesity and flab due to unnecessary or excessive eating disorders.

Diet pills accompanied with a healthy diet and regular light exercises shall help in fast reduction of the unwanted fats and flab. A healthy diet plays a very important role in a weight loss course. Diet pills work wonders with appropriate light exercise, instead of burning calories for hours in a gym you can have a simple exercise routine at home with very light and minimal exercises.

2010/2/25

Arena weight loss drug under FDA review

@ 12:35 AM (23 months, 12 days ago)

Federal regulators are reviewing Arena Pharmaceuticals' application for a weight-loss drug, the biotechnology company said Wednesday.

The company said it does not have a target date for completion of the Food and Drug Administration review.

The drug Lorcaserin is part of a group of weight-loss drugs that could reach the market around the same time.

Vivus Inc., based in Mountain View, Calif., already asked the FDA to approve its obesity drug candidate Qnexa. Orexigen Therapeutics Inc., based in La Jolla, Calif., expects to file its application for Contrave in 2010.

Shares of Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. rose 12 cents, or 3.7 percent, to $3.35 in morning trading. The stock has traded between $2.26 and $5.93 over the last 52 weeks.

Source: businessweek.com

2007/7/27

Diet Drug Acomplia Sales Dwarfed by Initial Sales of Diet Pill alli

@ 09:21 PM (54 months, 25 days ago)

Just how badly sales of diet drug Acomplia (rimonabant) have been set back by Sanofi's inability to bring it to the U.S. market was dramatically illustrated July 25th when GlaxoSmithKline revealed initial launch results for over-the-counter diet pill alli (low-dose Xenical).

Sales of non-prescription alli totaled a surprising $156 million in the weeks after its U.S. launch in mid-June -- a sales surge that dwarfs the monthly sales of Acomplia in all the countries where it is on the market in the European Union.

If most of the alli sales were to people initially buying a one-month supply of the over-the-counter diet pill, the sales figure would suggest that more than 1 million Americans decided to try the first FDA-approved non-prescription weight-loss product in its first weeks on the market.

By contrast, in the European Union, where Acomplia was approved for sale last summer, somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 are believed to have tried it over the course of a year.

Sanofi had initially hoped that Acomplia -- which was to be sold in the United States as Zimulti -- would be a blockbuster drug with sales that could even exceed $5 billion worldwide.

But without the U.S. market, it appears that Sanofi will be fortunate if sales in Europe and other countries where it has been approved total one-tenth of that.

Glaxo, in announcing sales results for alli as part of its report on second-quarter earnings, said its big advertising and promotion campaign paid off with more than 2.4 billion media mentions since the FDA approved sale of the diet pill in February.

Glaxo also said that it had recorded more than 4.5 million visits to its website -- myalli.com -- making it the third-most visited website for any over-the-counter pharmaceutical product.

Acomplia is currently marketed in 13 European Union nations as well as in Argentina, Mexico and a handful of other countries.

Source: http://www.acompliareport.com/

2007/7/22

European watchdog warns about dangers of Acomplia

@ 09:12 PM (55 months, 8 hours ago)

The European Medicines Agency has warned consumers that the weight loss drug Acomplia heightens the risk of suicide among those taking anti-depressants.

The agency wants stronger warnings placed on the drug to reflect that risk but has stopped short of suspending the drug.

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2007/7/15

Safety of new weight-loss drug is questioned

@ 10:56 PM (55 months, 7 days ago)
A new over-the-counter weight-loss drug called Alli may give people with eating disorders another tool to harm themselves, local therapists fear.

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2007/7/10

Exercise is safest way to lose weight

@ 11:06 PM (55 months, 12 days ago)
With obesity on the rise in America, and the lengthy list of medical issues attributed to it, consumers are searching for ways to lose weight. Nothing represents America's desire to lose weight more than the billions of dollars spent each year on weight loss programs.

Unfortunately though, those trying the newest fad diet or diet pill quickly find the money spent doesn't pay off.

Alli is the most recent diet pill to hit the market. Made by the same manufacturer of the prescription diet drug Xenical, Alli is a lower dosage version and can be purchased over-the-counter.

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2007/6/27

Side effects not slowing Alli diet-pill boom

@ 10:04 PM (55 months, 25 days ago)

A new over-the-counter weight loss pill, which has been disappearing quickly from store shelves across Houston since it became available a week ago, is likely to cause undesirable side effects if dieters don't also abide by the low-fat diet that the drugmaker recommends.

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2007/6/19

Alli hits the stores

@ 09:34 PM (56 months, 3 days ago)

The first non-prescription diet drug ever to be approved by the FDA hit the shops this week and optimistic dieters are dashing out to buy it.

The new diet pill, Alli which is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) works by blocking the absorption of fat by the body which is then eliminated by way of the bowels.

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2007/6/12

Alli weight loss drug on the U.S. market soon

@ 09:38 PM (56 months, 10 days ago)

The new weight loss drug Alli is about to hit the U.S. market.

Alli which is produced by GlaxoSmithKline will be available to consumers in America next week following a 150 million dollar advertising campaign to promote the non-prescription drug.

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