Wyeth got final judicial approval to add $1.3 billion to a $3.75 billion national settlement of lawsuits over the fen-phen diet-drug combination. <@SM><@SM><TAB>The addition to the $3.75 billion ...

Some people fear that new obesity drugs will inevitably prove to be dangerous, but there are key distinctions from the fen-phen crisis of the 1990s. Reading time 8 minutes The drug Ozempic, after just ...

MARGE FRIEL HAS NEVER had much luck with diets. ""I can lose weight,'' she says, ""but keeping it off is more difficult. I lose my moti-vation.'' Fen-phen changed that. The 48-year-old secretary ...

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In 1997, the popular diet drug Fen-phen was pulled from the market. Its makers, American Home Products, quietly paid out billions in confidential settlements for the heart problems the medicine caused ...

Pietr Hitzig, who sought fame prescribing the drug fen-phen over the Internet, was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Baltimore to 45 months in prison after a hearing that focused on his ...

The Kentucky Supreme Court today permanently disbarred lawyer Stanley Chesley, the prominent tort lawyer and Democratic Party kingmaker who got entangled in a scandal over fen-phen litigation that ...

A trial commissioner for the Kentucky Bar Association has recommended that Ohio superlawyer Stanley Chesley, Democratic kingmaker and husband of a federal judge, lose his license for engineering a ...

Losing weight isn't easy, especially without the dangerous, but actually effective weight-loss drug Fen-Phen, which the FDA pulled from shelves in 1997 due to concerns about damage the drug was doing ...

The drug company that manufactured "fen-phen," a diet medication linked to heart ailments, covered up problems with the drug that emerged during Food and Drug Administration testing, a former FDA ...