Obesity Facts and Information

Obesity Help: Obesity help will not come in the New Contrave pill

Numerous feel that Contrave will be the obesity support but science says this is false. The reason for this is that research show that the obesity pill Contrave only gives really tiny result. This is vital since the drug is becoming marketed as a remedy to obesity which it is not. Obesity is a global [...]

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US panel approves first obesity drug in a decade

An advisory panel to the US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday gave its approval to an anti-obesity drug, in what could be the first new approved drug for losing weight in more than a decade. Contrave, a drug developed by the California-based Orexigen Therapies, was given the nod by a 13-7 vote by the [...]

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Orexigen obesity drug shows added benefits

Nearly half of patients who completed 56 weeks of treatment with Orexigen Therapeutics Inc’s experimental obesity treatment, Contrave, lost at least 10 percent of their weight in a late-stage study and the drug also appeared to help cholesterol and blood sugar levels. The drug demonstrated an even greater improvement in non- weight loss measures in [...]

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