MARGE FRIEL HAS NEVER had much luck with diets. ""I can lose weight,'' she says, ""but keeping it off is more difficult. I lose my moti-vation.'' Fen-phen changed that. The 48-year-old secretary ...

Some people fear that new obesity drugs will inevitably prove to be dangerous, but there are key distinctions from the fen-phen crisis of the 1990s. Reading time 8 minutes The drug Ozempic, after just ...

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Losing weight isn't easy, especially without the dangerous, but actually effective weight-loss drug Fen-Phen, which the FDA pulled from shelves in 1997 due to concerns about damage the drug was doing ...

The Kentucky Supreme Court today permanently disbarred lawyer Stanley Chesley, the prominent tort lawyer and Democratic Party kingmaker who got entangled in a scandal over fen-phen litigation that ...

Phyllis Hardy sits on her living room couch with some of her paperwork involved in her legal case against a drug company regarding heart valve damage she suffered after using a diet pill. Photo from ...

In 1997, the popular diet drug Fen-phen was pulled from the market. Its makers, American Home Products, quietly paid out billions in confidential settlements for the heart problems the medicine caused ...

The drug company that manufactured "fen-phen," a diet medication linked to heart ailments, covered up problems with the drug that emerged during Food and Drug Administration testing, a former FDA ...

Pietr Hitzig, the self-described “father of fen-phen,” was convicted Monday of illegally prescribing the drug over the Internet to patients he never saw. Hitzig, 58, was found guilty of all 34 charges ...