Any new drug faces a mountain of skepticism and justifiably so, according to one of the Cleveland Clinic’s best known cardiologists – Dr. Steve Nissen.
“The problem we face with obesity drugs is they have a pretty horrible track record. You know, this track record has made the FDA cautious, it’s made the public cautious and it’s made the requirement that we really think our way through this and do careful clinical trials, it’s made it much more important to do that,” Nissen said.
For the first time in more than a decade, new prescription drugs for weight loss have hit the market. Given the history of diet pills, including dangerous side effects, there’s lots of skeptics. Drug-makers have turned to a Cleveland cardiologist to help answer those questions. For our weekly Be Well segment, ideastream Health Reporter Sarah Jane Tribble provides this report….www.meizitangbotanicalslimmingsoftgel.com
When the weight-loss drug Fen-phen etched itself into the American consciousness in the late ‘90s, the early results looked promising – at last, just taking a pill could cause pounds to drop off quickly; but the magic ended when researchers found that the pills caused severe heart valve damage that required surgery to repair.Botanical Slimming
Since then, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has taken other weight loss drugs off the market, removed for causing scary side effects, including possible death. The most recent prescription drug to go was Meridia in 2010.