EU Takes Acomplia Off Market
I’ve always avoided using weight loss drugs, and advised friends to only use ones that have built up a solid reputation over the years. I hate to read news articles about people desperate to lose weight becoming ill due to risky drug use.
The European Union has taken Acomplia off the market. Acomplia is a weight loss drug developed by pharmaceutical group Sanofi-Aventis. The European Medicines Authority concluded that the risks involved in using the drug do not outweigh its positive effects. A recent study has shown that people taking the drug are twice more likely to develop psychiatric disorders. Now, maybe it’s just me, but i’d rather be a bit overweight than that. Interestingly, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have never actually approved the drug for sale on the US market.
Sanofi-Aventis, the French pharmaceutical group, suffered a crippling blow to the prospects for its weight-loss drug Acomplia yesterday when regulators ordered the product to be withdrawn across the European Union.
The European Medicines Authority concluded that the benefits no longer outweighed the risks for the drug - known generically as rimonabant - after reviewing data suggesting that obese and overweight patients had twice the risk of psychiatric disorders as those on a placebo.
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November 15th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Well done on a great post regarding diet pills that work and those that maybe dont. Of course they all claim to be brilliant and its good to get realistic deatails on that maybe dont. Anyone considering using diet pills needs to look around first.Again well done on this site.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:27 am
I think the key to weight loss is not what we put in our mouth. It is what goes on in our mind. As our mind controls our body and behavior, if our mind can guide us to the proper way of eating, we would have the weight we desire without any of the side effects of taking diet pills such as Acomplia.
The most powerful tool available for sustainable weight loss is from our subconscious mind. This is how HYPNOSIS comes in for weight loss.
Under the hypnotic trance state, suggestions go directly to our subconscious mind. And so the change in our eating habit would take place more effectively and permanently.
There are many books and CDs on hypnosis for weight loss. You may refer to some of these at http://www.LossWeightEbook.com.