Changes in the use of diet pills for weight loss.

August 1997

    All the scary news about "phen-fen" will lead to changes in the use of diet pills for weight loss.

    Doctors wrote 18 million phentermine-fenfluramine prescriptions last year. But the combination is NOT FDA-approved...in fact the FDA discourages this off-label use.

    Manufacturers will now add new warnings to the package inserts.

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