Thursday, February 23, 2012

Yahoo! News: Weight Loss News

Yahoo! News: Weight Loss News


Big Profits: 7 Companies Cashing In on Americans' Obesity (LiveScience.com)

Posted: 23 Feb 2012 07:31 AM PST

LiveScience.com - Once the domain of big and tall shops and companies hawking weight-loss products and services, the plus-size business is expanding about as rapidly as Americans' waist lines. Companies selling all manner of lifestyle and home products aimed at making life easier for overweight consumers are selling everything from super sturdy folding chairs to oversized toilets, sunglasses and caskets. Here are seven companies that are cashing in on America's obesity epidemic.

FDA Advisers Back Weight-Loss Drug Qnexa (HealthDay)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 08:46 PM PST

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) -- A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel gave its blessing Wednesday to a highly anticipated weight loss pill that had been rejected by health advisers once before.

U.S. advisers back experimental obesity pill (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 04:23 PM PST

Reuters - Experimental obesity drug Qnexa won the backing of U.S. health advisors on Wednesday, raising hopes for approval of the first prescription weight-loss pill in 13 years.

FDA panel gives nod to Vivus obesity drug (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 01:40 PM PST

Reuters - An experimental obesity drug from Vivus Inc won a U.S. panel's support on Wednesday, raising hopes regulators would approve a weight-loss pill for the first time in 13 years.

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