There are a number of reasons why a person may want to lose weight, including reducing disease risk factors, improving overall quality of life, and managing disease-related symptoms. Even though ...

Helsinki, Finland - The antiobesity drug orlistat (Xenical ®, Roche) improved cardiovascular risk factors and prevented the development of type 2 diabetes in patients with metabolic syndrome, ...

September 22, 2011 (London, United Kingdom) — The European Medicines Agency (EMA) says that it has started a review of orlistat-containing medicines to determine whether the "very rare cases of ...

You don’t have to be a registered dietitian to know that eating healthy and working out are clutch for losing weight. But that doesn’t mean there aren't a lot of people still hoping a medicine or ...

In a recent study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers compared the effects of an experimental low-carbohydrate and high-protein diet and orlistat with that of a ...

A few weeks ago, a middle-age patient who has been taking orlistat regularly for weight loss asked about the increased risk of developing cancer, especially colon cancer, with prolonged intake of the ...

OBJECTIVE: To examine the short-term effects of a lipase inhibitor (Orlistat) on physiological and behavioural measures of appetite in response to a high-fat meal. DESIGN: Randomised, single blind, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The Food and Drug Administration announced today that regulators are ...

The serum is rheumatoid factor negative. Most rheumatic diseases require symptomatic treatment to relieve pain and increase joint movement using non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and ...