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The market in more than a decade. and what i m seeing, and this is just my take on some of the reports, there seems to be an urgency and also a little bit of an impatience to get drugs on the market because obesity is such a big issue. yes. there s a push to find something because, first of all, how much it costs, but the diabetes, high blood pressure and be strokes that you get from being overweight, these are preventable. i think the best way to lose weight is not with these pills. qnexa, by the way, birth defects in kids, valve problems again jenna: so you don t feel like you know about these bill pills, but if someone has tried everything, is there anything whether it s a prescription or a medical procedure that you would say, hey, maybe you need to consider this? always lifestyle. let s be honest. you tell someone to lose weight, run, and they don t do it. obesity surgery, that is the way to do it. ....
Prescribing it, so the people who rush to take these new medications are the ones that have the problems. jenna: i was looking at some of the side effects from the test study. they say most of the people that have taken this lost an average of 5% of their body weight, so we re not talking about a huge amount of weight loss here. right. you re talking a 200-pound person lost 10 pounds. to undergo the risks jenna: and can some of the risks are according to, again, to the test study they did, there were some concerns about tumors, also some concerns about weakening or effecting your heart valve. with which we ve had before with fen-phen, do you remember that? it was about so, 15 years ago. people rushed to take it, and they had permanent damage to their lungs and heart. while the study seems to show it s not going to cause that problem, who knows? jenna: we ve also talked about qnexa. that i can pronounce. jenna: and, again, we re looking at the first diet pills that have been fda ....
now there s a new attorney joining george zimmerman s case. about time. that s kind of interesting. he did have a representative at first buchlt now the two of them will jointly represent george zimmerman. his father also really sat down to talk about his son s version of events the night that trayvon martin was shot and killed. here is what he said. he was walking back to his vehicle. trayvon came from his left side, asked him, did he have did he have a problem? george said no. at that point, trayvon said, well, you do now. he punched him in the nose, knocked him to the concrete and started beating him. george was there, yelling for help for at least 40 seconds. it s clearly him on the tape. joining us this morning, lou palumbo, nassau county police officer and director i have trouble talking, one minute, 30 seconds into the show. nice to have you. we ve spent a lot of time now talking about this particular case. we re now getting the version of events fles ....
And my grains and it is extreme migraines and it is extremely successful at that and it is a great drug for weight loss but leads to cognitive slowing and memory loss and a new study showed it doubles your risk of birth defects. so, i don t agree with the fda, they are about to prove this. i agree they should do more studies. because, the pill in this combination, has never been studied before, before i see it approved and there has not been an obesity drug approved in 13 years. jamie: and you never hear of the fast track approval. well, i think, you know, while i m not a big fan of the weight loss medications, there is only one on the mark now, xenical, because of gi symptoms there is room for another one, the medication qnexa was rejected two years ago and they did more research and are having more effective. got a vote, 20-2 and, most likely, fda will approve this. ....
Weight loss, is it worth it? experts are worried about side effect. dr. siegel, everyone wants to get to their ideal weight. is it not the way? i think that the pill is terrific but i m not ready to see the fda approve it yet. a panel advised the fda they should approve it and, two years ago, a different panel said don t approve it. there s a controversy here and the drug has been shown to decrease weight by 10% in one year. that is very, very powerful stuff. it has two ingredients in it, though and i m wary of pills, because if there are side effects, i don t know which pills are doing which, one drug, i prescribe regularly and i m aware it causes palpitations but it is a good weight loss pill and it was part of fen-phen, a huge disaster in 1997 and led to a lot of lawsuits. the problem with qnexa is the other ingredient, topamax which we use as a seizure medication ....