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FDA Withdraws Meridia from the Market

Washington Post:

Sidney Wolfe of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, which had petitioned the FDA to remove Meridia, noted that while European regulators recently pulled two other drugs – the pain pill Darvon and the long-controversial diabetes drug Avandia – both remain available in the United States.

“Both of these unacceptably dangerous drugs remain on the market in this country, predictably injuring or killing many people, who, unlike their European counterparts, do not have the government protecting them from drugs with no unique benefits but significant, unique risks,” Wolfe said.

Meanwhile, in yet more bad news for people trying to lose weight, the FDA also warned Friday against using “Slimming Beauty Bitter Orange Slimming Capsules,” an herbal product sold over the Internet, because tests found it contains sibutramine.

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