Phyllis Hardy sits on her living room couch with some of her paperwork involved in her legal case against a drug company regarding heart valve damage she suffered after using a diet pill. Photo from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Weight loss is never an easy journey, and depending on how much a person wants to lose, it is long and frustrating too. Alpha Phen is a newly introduced dietary formula that cuts this waiting time and ...

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 ...

It's the case that doesn't seem to end. The infamous $200 million fen-phen drug case ruined the careers of at least four lawyers and a well-known judge. And now it's put another long-sitting judge in ...

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 ...

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 ...

B A L T I M O R E, June 25 -- Pietr Hitzig, the self-described "father of fen-phen," was convicted today of illegally prescribing the drug over the Internet to patients he never saw. Hitzig, 58, was ...