Group Seeks Ban of Fat-Blocking Drug

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WASHINGTON - A private group asked health officials Monday to ban the prescription version of the fat-blocking drug orlistat, citing a link to what some scientists believe are precancerous lesions in the large intestine.

A petition filed by Public Citizen with the Food and Drug Administration came just days after the regulatory agency gave conditional approval to GlaxoSmithKline to sell a nonprescription version of the drug.

However, the petition asks only to have the prescription version of orlistat, sold by Roche since 1999 under the brand name Xenical, removed from the market.

a bit more here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060410/ap_on_he_me/diet_pill_4

I say ban this cancerous crap NOW!

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1. Anything to kill fat people

First Fen-Phen and then more radical WLS and now this.

The minute they found out fat senior citizens live longer, they started hacking at the roots.