Anti-Obesity Pill Might Fight Drug Abuse
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A pill that helps you lose weight and quit smoking? That was amazing enough to capture headlines last week. But scientists say the experimental drug might be even more versatile, providing a new tool to help people stop abusing drugs and alcohol, too.
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An experimental drug prevented mice from developing diabetes and heart disease and might one day be used to stave off the diseases in humans, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
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Too many calories and too little exercise are undeniably the major factors contributing to the obesity epidemic, but several recent animal studies suggest that environmental exposure to widely used chemicals may also help make people fat.
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Robbie Williams has made perhaps the most effective anti-drug statement ever: taking narcotics can make you fat. According to the BBC, the 30-year-old British pop singer made the comment during a recent interview with a radio station.
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When the weight-loss drug  sibutramine, marketed under the brand names Meridia or  Reductil, is used to treat obesity in adolescents, it is  associated with small decreases in blood pressure and pulse  rate, according to a new study.
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A once-a-day pill that helps people to lose weight and stop smoking could be available within two years. The drug, rimonabant, works on a newly discovered system in the brain that is involved
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A drug used to treat diabetes also seems to prevent it in people at high risk of developing the disease, the largest study ever to test this has found.
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To people who have struggled for a lifetime to lose weight, the new drug called rimonabant sounds like a dream come true. It will make a person uninterested in fattening foods, they have heard from news reports and word of mouth.
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A NEW &quot;miracle&quot; drug for obesity could prove central to the fortunes of manufacturer Sanofi-Aventis, if the French company is successful in bringing it to the market.
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Dieters got a new tool Wednesday to help them take off the extra pounds &#151; the first government-approved nonprescription diet pill. The Food and Drug Administration said the fat-blocking weight-loss pill orlistat, which has been available by prescription, can be sold in a reduced-strength version over the counter.
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A whopping 75 million Americans may have something called metabolic syndrome. How Big Pharma turned obesity into a desease and then invented the drugs to cure it. By Thomas Goetz from Wired magazine.
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An experimental wonder drug, Rimonabant, helps you lose weight, quit smoking and it also helps protect your heart. Trials have shown that 33% of people on Rimonabant lost 10% of body weight and kept their
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A drug approved for the  treatment of arthritis may have a role in reducing the risk of  diabetes and heart trouble developing in young obese  individuals, Harvard researchers report.
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A drug that helps people quit smoking also helps them prevent the excess weight gain that often plagues ex-smokers, according to research released at the North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO) Annual Scientific Meeting.
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Researchers said on Monday they have pinpointed the reason some drugs used to treat mental illnesses like schizophrenia cause patients to gain a lot of weight, raising hope for developing drugs without this side effect.
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A pill that helps you lose weight and quit smoking? That was amazing enough to capture headlines this past week. But scientists say the experimental drug might be even more versatile, providing a new tool
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While rimonabant sounds like a dream come true to people who are trying to lose weight, some researchers say the drug may be getting more attention than it deserves.