Perhaps the most infamous example is the drug combination fen-phen, which was taken off the market in the late 1990s after it was found to raise the risk of severe, even life-threatening heart ...

In a recent study conducted by a team from The Ohio State University, US, it was revealed that a staggering 25% of adults, or ...

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 ...

A lawyer who represented people injured by the diet drug fen-phen should be disbarred for violating ethics rules, a Kentucky hearing officer has recommended. Attorneys William Gallion and Shirley ...

It became part of the fen-phen drug combination that was popular in the 1990s until being pulled from the market due to safety issues. Phentermine itself continued to be prescribed in low doses for a ...

The Kentucky Bar Association wants top plaintiff attorney Stan Chesley disbarred for life for his role in fen-phen diet-drug cases. Lawyers say a Kentucky court's forfeiture order will make it ...

Opioid prescriptions have fallen, asbestos has been phased out, and dangerous drugs like fen-phen have been pulled largely because of mass-tort lawsuits. Johnson & Johnson is making its baby ...

the use of fenfluramine and phentermine together ("fen-phen") was gaining in popularity, and cases of PPH associated with these drugs soon appeared. [10] Although the IPPHS had shown that the risk ...

which were used in combination with phentermine in the fen-phen diet drug (see “Heartache for AHP”), has left the public with lingering doubts about new obesity therapies. Indeed, Xenical has ...

Consider the abuse potential of phentermine when evaluating the desirability of including the drug as part of a weight reduction program. Adipex-P is contraindicated during pregnancy because ...

She is the author of “Dispensing With the Truth: The Victims, The Drug Companies, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle over Fen-Phen,” (St. Martin’s Press). Ms. Mundy has a B.S. from ...