<TAB>Ten people were arrested in Fayette, Miss., on charges related to the $150 million verdict in 1999 in Jefferson County against the manufacturer of the diet drug fen-phen, FBI special agent Bob ...

Wyeth got final judicial approval to add $1.3 billion to a $3.75 billion national settlement of lawsuits over the fen-phen diet-drug combination. <@SM><@SM><TAB>The addition to the $3.75 billion ...

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 ...

Pietr Hitzig, who sought fame prescribing the drug fen-phen over the Internet, was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Baltimore to 45 months in prison after a hearing that focused on his ...

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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 ...

A trial commissioner for the Kentucky Bar Association has recommended that Ohio superlawyer Stanley Chesley, Democratic kingmaker and husband of a federal judge, lose his license for engineering a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...