Phentermine News

High hopes for new phentermine drug, Qnexa

Friday 23 October 2009

Qnexa is a newly developed drug that contains phentermine and could be set to increase the number of prescriptions for phentermine which alread accounted for almost 75% of the 6.8 million diet prescriptions in 2008. | Read the article

Women's weight-loss surgery may help kids

Tuesday 8 September 2009

Children born to moms who had the procedure before pregnancy have healthier hearts and less risk of obesity than their siblings born before the mom had surgery. | Read the article

Obesity takes toll on brains of elderly

Tuesday 8 September 2009

Obesity � even a few extra pounds � already is a known cause of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Now there's evidence that excess weight shrinks the brains of elderly people, making them potentially more vulnerable to Alzheimer's | Read the article

FDA investigates reports of liver failure with weight loss drug orlistat

Tuesday 25 August 2009

The Food and Drug Administration announced today that regulators are assessing at least 32 reports of liver problems between 1999 and 2008 in patients taking the weight-loss drug orlistat, sold as a prescription drug Xenical and more recently, as an over- | Read the article

Contrave: New weight loss drug in the spot light

Thursday 23 July 2009

Contrave, by Orexigen Therapeutics. Creators of Contrave announced earlier this week that Phase III trial data has been completed. In one of the trials, 48% of the patients lost more than 5% of their body weight after 56 weeks. | Read the article

Does our health insurance affect how fat we are?

Thursday 23 July 2009

A new N.B.E.R. (National Bureau of Economic Research) working paper finds a link between health insurance and obesity, and suggests that the better insured you are, the fatter you�re likely to be. | Read the article

10 years of Phentermine.com!

Thursday 23 July 2009

2009 is a double celebration, not only is it Phentermine�s 50th Birthday, this year also marks 10 years since Phentermine.com first went live in 1999. | Read the article

Obesity link to same-sex parents

Monday 13 July 2009

A British study discovered that a child becomes overweight due to the influence of his or her same-sex parent and not because of genetics. | Read the article

Obesity rates worsen

Tuesday 7 July 2009

Adult obesity rates increased in 23 states and did not decrease in a single state in the past year, according to F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America 2009, a report released today by the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert | Read the article

Shaun sheds 27lbs

Thursday 2 July 2009

In our latest success story Shaun shares her experiences and shows off her new look. | Read the article