MONDAY, Sept. 13 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will ask an expert panel later this week whether or not the diet drug Meridia should be banned due to suspected heart risks.
In documents released Monday ahead of the panel meeting, which begins , the agency said that members of its Endocrinologic & Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee will be asked to consider a number of options, including taking no action, adding label warnings and/or restrictions to the use of Meridia, or to withdraw [Meridia] from the U.S.
Vitamin D. It seems that everywhere you turn you are now reading how this once little talked about, almost shunned vitamin is the end all, be all when it comes to the vitamins that you should have in your health cabinet. Vitamin D, especially Vitamin D3, has been identified as a vitamin that is vital to the health of your bones, calcium absorption, cancer prevention since it helps to prevent the division of irregular cells and out of control cell growth, and also now it has been implicated in the control of your insulin levels.
Because of this link to your insulin levels and keeping level blood sugar, vitamin D is now also linked to the ease of losing and keeping weight off, and maintaining a healthy weight.
The popular diet drug Meridia has been a questionable diet drug for some time now, and there are new calls now to recall this diet drug due to the potential for some pretty serious health conditions that affect the heart as well as increase risk of stroke.
Heart and stroke risks are often associated, because any drug or lifestyle habit or diet that affects the way the blood flows through the body and the thinness or thickness of the blood, so to speak, can have an effect on both the heart’s health as well as the blood vessels in the brain which can rupture and cause a stroke.
Apparently the study, which was actually funded by Abbott Labratories, which is ironically the maker of the drugs (hey, I gotta give them props, because the outcome of the study shows an increased risk of their popular drug), shows a correlation between an increased risk of stroke and heart attacks in patients that already have predispositions toward these issues.
Now, while that’s not a smoking gun that this drug alone caused the potentially life threatening problem on it’s own but instead had some help from good old genetics, it’s still not good for the consumer protection groups who want all drugs to be 100% safe. Unfortu
Two products that have been distributed under the guise of giving free trials, and yet charge people’s credit cards and make it very difficult to stop the automatic orders from going through, has been sued by the FTC for making false claims and misleading consumers about a free trial when in fact they ended up paying for it.
The FTC received multiple complaints about the company after people tried to stop or return the product. The products are marketed as potent antioxidants that help to purge the body of toxicity and help you to lose weight through purging the body of these toxins. They also apparently used the names of Oprah Winfrey and Rachael Ray without the star’s permission.
A federal judge froze the company’s assets pending further investigation. Tests s