Weight loss improves fatty liver disease, researchers find

...e patients specific weight-loss goals that are likely to improve their livers. The finding comes from a study of the diet drug orlistat (also known as xenical and Alli), which did not itself improve liver disease. Brent Neuschwander-Tetri, M.D., a hepatologist at Saint Louis University Liver Center and st...

Experimental Weight-Loss Pill Passes Early Test

... people are able to sustain such changes and, even if they lose weight, will regain it. Some weight-loss drugs are already on the market -- such as xenical and Meridia -- but have certain side effects. The drug Fen-phen, a combination of fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine, worked for many but was withdra...

Pipeline for New Obesity Therapies is Focus of New Report

... Boc5 (SH-7871; UC Riverside / Chinese Academy of Science); Substituted quinoxalines (Novo Nordisk/ Pfizer), PYY 3-36 (Nastech), CYT009-GhrQb (Cytos), xenical / alli (orlistat; Roche / GSK), cetilistat (Alizyme/ Takeda), SGLT inhibitors. This report can be purchased by contacting MedPredict. About MedPre...

GlaxoSmithKline Obtains Exclusive U.S. OTC Marketing Rights to MEVACOR(R) (lovastatin) from Merck & Co., Inc.

...xoSmithKline at http://www.gsk.com . Nicorette, NicoDerm CQ and alli trademarks are either owned by and/or licensed to GSK or associated companies. xenical is a registered trademark of the Roche Group. About GSK Consumer Healthcare OTC MEVACOR would be marketed in the United States by GSK Consumer Hea...

Experts Warn Against Side Effects of the New Weight Loss Drug

...SmithKline, is a half-dose of the prescription drug orlistat. The drug has been marketed in prescription form by Roche Holding AG under the brand name xenical since 1999, but it never turned out to be a blockbuster. GlaxoSmithKline, however, expects Alli ultimately to rake in at least $1.5billion in ann...

FDA Warns Against Buying of Counterfeit Drug Through Internet

... received information that counterfeit versions of xenical 120 mg capsules was sold from two different web sites. xenical manufactured by Hoffman-La Roche, Inc. help obese ...t. Sibutramine has to be administered once and the xenical thrice in a day. It seemed that both the d...

Alli- a New Weapon for War Against the Bulges

... Alli- a fat blocker is the first FDA approved diet drug to be available over- the -counter without a prescription. The prescription diet drug xenical has been introduced to drugstore shelves with a new name and in nonprescription strength on Friday in a reincarnated form dubbed Alli. It has been int...

FDA Warns Against Buying of Counterfeit Drug Through Internet

... received information that counterfeit versions of xenical 120 mg capsules was sold from two different web sites. xenical manufactured by Hoffman-La Roche, Inc. help obese ...t. Sibutramine has to be administered once and the xenical thrice in a day. It seemed that both the dru...

Viagra to Be an OTC Drug Soon

... be sold over the counter (OTC). Other such drugs sold by Boots without the need of a prescription include chlamydia treatments, weight loss drug xenical and a hair restoration product. Boots has made use of the provision in the Patient Group Directions, a relatively little-used provision in prescr...

U S Government Allows Non-prescription Diet Pill

...s called Alli, which was previously sold as a prescription drug by the name xenical since 1999 in U.S. On a comparative note Alli will be sold in 60 mg capsules while xenical was sold in 120 mg capsule. Thought Alli is lower in strength when compared...

Xenical in Medical Technology

A Drug With Efficacy Superior to That of Xenical at Inducing Weight Loss Would Earn a 40 Percent Patient Share in the Obesity Drug Market

Advantages in Efficacy and Delivery Will Make Qnexa the New Clinical Gold Standard Drug by 2011, According to a New Report from Decision Resources WALTHAM, Mass., June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceutical and ...

New Data Show Xenical Significantly Reduces Cardiovascular Risk and More Than Doubles Weight Loss Achieved in Overweight and Obese People

BUDAPEST, April 24 /CNW/ - The weight loss medication Xenical (orlistat 120mg) significantly reduces weight and improves cardiovascular risk factors such as blood pressure, glycaemic control and lipid profile in overweight and obese people with type 2 diabetes and hypertension, according to a study...