Rimonabant for overweight or obesity

Article submitted by brasseye at 10:23, Sun 1 Jul 2007
http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab006162.html

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    This Wall Street Journals Blog http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2007/06/29/sanofi-retreats-on-acomplia-vows-to-try-again/ reports (June 29th 2007):

    "Rather than wait for an FDA rejection that had come to seem inevitable, Sanofi-Aventis today withdrew its application to sell its weight-loss drug Zimulti in the United States.

    The drug, known generically as rimonabant and sold as Acomplia in Europe, was trounced a few weeks ago by an FDA advisory panel concerned by the drug’s psychiatric side effects."

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