July 16th, 2010 
Vinbar 
Finally it appears that the FDA is doing its job and protecting people rather than enabling the prescription drug pushers to make enormous profits off our health.
An FDA advisory panel voted Thursday to recommend the rejection of Qnexa, a new diet drug that is a combination of two older medications. The vote was 10-6, with members apparently most concerned about the rate of cognitive and psychiatric side effects.
The medication – call it “Qui-nex’-uh” – was developed by the company Vivus, and is a combination of two more familiar drugs. One, phentermine, is an amphetamine that made up the “phen” half of Fen-Phen, the diet drug that was pulled from the market in 1997 after some users died of heart valve problems. An FDA review of Qnexa blamed “Fen” – fenfluramine – for the deaths.
The other component of Qnexa is topiramate, an anti-seizure medication that has been investigated for a range of other uses, including the treatment of alcoholism. This spring, Johnson and Johnson, which markets topiramate under the brand-name Topamax, was accused of going overboard in its enthusiasm, paying an $81 million fine to settle charges that it illegally marketed the drug for unapproved therapies.
Unfortunately, if we all maintained a healthy lifestyle, drugs like this wouldn’t be necessary. So please, everyone, remember to lay off the fast food, the white food, and the high fructose corn syrup, and eat your fruits and veggies. And don’t forget your Yoga Weight Loss Poses. Your health depends on it.
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