FDA approves highly anticipated weight-loss pill
Source: AP-Excite
By MATTHEW PERRONE
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a new weight loss drug from Vivus (VVUS) Inc. that many doctors consider the most effective therapy in a new generation of anti-obesity pills designed to help patients safely shed pounds.
The agency cleared the pill Qsymia for adults who are obese or overweight and have at least one weight-related condition such as high blood pressure, diabetes or high cholesterol.
Patients taking Qsymia for a year lost 6.7 percent of their body weight in one study and 8.9 percent in another study, the FDA said. That was more than two other weight loss pill recently reviewed by the FDA.
Despite its impressive performance in clinical trials, Qsymia is not exactly a scientific breakthrough, and its development underscores the slow pace of research for obesity treatments.
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Pharaoh
(8,209 posts)eat right and exercise!
What kind of ramifications and side effects down the road for this drug?
Our country is insane...........
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)or strictly limit exercising. COPD is one example. Please remember that the next time you throw out the "eat right and exercise" meme which infers that the overweight person is either lazy, stupid or both.
Pharaoh
(8,209 posts)And their bought and paid for FDA, than by all means take this drug.
dmallind
(10,437 posts)and means anything that needs elevated oxygen intake is impossible, as the lungs simply cannot process very much. Please tell me how I should exercise.
We are Devo
(193 posts)Or me with my CFS and fibromyalgia!
Pharaoh
(8,209 posts)read the fine print of side effects and know that there will be ramifications down the road. But a few may benefit from it.
Most will not, but I'm sure they will make billions off it.
thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)heart murmur
lung tumors
stomach bleeding
kidney failure
brain seizure
bleeding rectum
etc........
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,356 posts)thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)boppers
(16,588 posts)Win-Win.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)How the heck do you pro ounce "Qsymia?"
There's a drug company called "Vivus?" Isn't that a wee bit close to "virus?"
Aren't typical healthy diets designed to get rid of 1-2 lbs. a week? That's 50-100 lbs. in a year, which would be well over 6.7% of body weight for most people, wouldn't it? Is my math fuzzy?
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Qsymia is pronounced as cue-see-me-ah
Vivus means "life" in Latin.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I think Qsymia sounds a bit like Quiznos, the sub place, but I can't be sure.
Kwiz-Mee-Ah, perhaps?
I hate made-up words for drugs--they annoy me far more than incongruous names for Japanese motor vehicles!
NBachers
(17,186 posts)boppers
(16,588 posts)Not exactly new, just pathetic that the US has to resort to such measures.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)...even though I'm not really hungry.
ecstatic
(32,782 posts)it could decrease emotional /boredom eating.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)not a news story.