TELEVISION advertisements featuring the weight-loss drug Xenical were back on air last night eight months after they were cancelled for pushing inappropriate or excessive use of the medication.
But the move has angered some experts who say the drug is still being targeted at body conscious teenagers.
Roche, the maker of Xenical, booked airtime for the drug’s […]
Alli, GlaxoSmithKline’s over-the-counter (OTC) weight-loss drug, generated sales of £76m in the second quarter of the year.
The drug was approved as an OTC treatment in the US in February, becoming the first ever weight-loss drug to gain that status.
It was launched in May in the US, where around 65% of the population is obese or […]
Shawn Garber, MD, Chief of Bariatric Surgery at Mercy, is one of the first five surgeons in the United States to learn the StomaphyX(tm) procedure for endoluminal gastric pouch reduction in patients with previous gastric bypass surgery.
The procedure was performed on July 18 on five patients who underwent laparoscopic gastric bypass in 2003 and had […]
Star Jones Reynolds says she’s written a story for Glamour magazine that will address speculation about her dramatic weight loss.
“I wrote an article because I really wanted to go as in-depth as possible about the way I’ve changed physically over the last 10 years on the air,” Reynolds, 45, said recently while promoting her […]
Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers filed a lawsuit Friday accusing an Oregon weight loss franchise of fraud.
The suit says LA Weight Loss misled customers about the program’s costs, fees, products and benefits.
For example, the company advertised that the weight-loss program cost $9 a week but later required consumers to pay hundreds of dollars for the […]
A new study of published literature that reported the effect of dietary counseling for weight loss finds that, on average, dietary counseling has resulted in weight loss of approximately 6 percent of initial body weight (approximately 10-15 pounds) after one year, compared with people not involved in formal weight loss programs.
The authors analyzed 46 trials […]
WASHINGTON — An old ulcer operation is getting new attention as a possible alternative obesity surgery: a quick snip of a nerve that helps control hunger.
It’s far from clear if cutting the vagus nerve really helps _ initial pilot studies in a few dozen patients have just begun. Skeptics abound, and even proponents say it […]