Fenfluramine: profile and news

Combined, Genes and Environment Affect Health More Than They Do ...  06 Mar 2006
...such as olanzapine, can produce significant weight gain and diabetes, while drugs that stimulate serotonergic neurons, such as fenfluramine, can induce weight ... - Innovations-Report,

Mechanically stimulating the heart  Feb 23, 2006
Her team is also looking into what causes the thickening of valves in the presence of fenfluramine, one of the drugs used in the banned diet drug combo Fen-Phen ... - myDNA.com,

Ky. Judge Resigns After Fen-Phen Reprimand  Feb 27, 2006
The fenfluramine half of fen-phen was pulled from the market in September 1997 by drugmaker Wyeth amid reports some users had heart valve damage and a few had ... - Houston Chronicle,

Kentucky judge resigns after public reprimand  Feb 28, 2006
Fen-phen became the diet craze of the 1990s when researchers found that when mixed together, two appetite suppressants, fenfluramine and phentermine, caused ... - Louisville Courier-Journal,

Judge resigns amid accusations he profited from diet drug case  Feb 27, 2006
The fenfluramine half of fen-phen was pulled from the market in September 1997 by drug maker Wyeth amid reports some users had heart valve damage and a few had ... - Kentucky.com,

There's still no magic pill for weight loss  Feb 19, 2006
Some say the field remains shaken by the FDA's decision to pull fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine from the market in 1997. The combination ... - Boston Globe,

Food firms seek diet bonanza  Feb 19, 2006
Early explorers of the idea were makers of caffeine supplements and pharmaceuticals, such as diet pills Dexatrim and the Fenfluramine-phentermine combination. ... - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription),

Leading Doctor Cites Obesity Drugs in Attack on FDA Approval ...  Feb 8, 2006
A leading physician, writing in one of the world's most influential medical journals, cited the 1990s diet drug fenfluramine and the new anti-obesity drug ... - Diet Drug Report,

Experimental Obesity Drug APD356 Reported Effective in Small ...  Feb 8, 2006
The new pill thus bears some similarities to the diet combination of fenfluramine and phentermine (fen-phen), in that fenfluramine also worked by increasing ... - Diet Drug Report,

Food makers hunt for next big fad in dieting  Feb 19, 2006
Fen phen, a combination of two diet drugs, ran into trouble when Fenfluramine - the "fen" half of the combination - was withdrawn from the market in 1997 after ... - Bradenton Herald,

Acomplia could break the diet pill curse  Feb 12, 2006
...for decades. The combination of fenfluramine and phentermine ("fen-phen") seemed to work better than either drug alone. The only ... - Houston Chronicle,

Wyeth Hoping to Settle Most Remaining "Fen-phen" Lawsuits in Next ...  Feb 9, 2006
Pondimin (fenfluramine hydrochloride) and Redux (dexfenfluramine), the two drugs that made up the "fen" portion of what in the 1990s was the extraordinarily ... - Diet Drug Report,

Researchers Take Aim At The Causes Of Heart Valve Disease  Jan 31, 2006
...another experiment, Grande-Allen hopes to recreate the process that causes thick, calloused plaques to form on valves in the presence of fenfluramine, one of ... - Medical News Today (press release),

Fenfluramine may increase slightly the effect of antihypertensive drugs, e.g., guanethidine, methyldopa, reserpine.

Other CNS depressant drugs should be used with caution in patients taking fenfluramine, since the effects may be additive.