OKLAHOMA CITY -- Fen-Phen was once hailed as a medical breakthrough for people struggling with weight loss, but the drug has recently pulled from the market after being linked to heart and lung ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The walls of Jill Jones’ home are lined with pictures of her four children but none of herself. Jones, 36, like millions of Americans has suffered with a weight problem all of her life. She tried ...

PHILADELPHIA — American Home Products Corp. on Wednesday overcame the final challenge to its $3.75-billion settlement of lawsuits over the withdrawn fen-phen diet drug combination, after rival ...

Even in a litigation-obsessed nation, fen-phen stands alone. After reports that the diet drug damaged heart valves, American Home Products, now Wyeth, pulled its fen-phen products and girded itself ...

Two timely events -- the publication of a finger-pointing book and the finalization of a multi-billion-dollar settlement of a class action lawsuit -- are returning the spotlight to fen-phen, the diet ...

American Home Products, the Madison-based maker of an element of the discontinued fen-phen diet drug combination, said on Friday that a California judge had denied class-action certification to a ...

John R. Stafford, CEO of Madison-based American Home Products (NYSE: AHP), on Friday filed an emergency appeal before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Beaumont, Texas, seeking to quash a ...

Texas plaintiffs’ lawyers will have to wait a few more weeks for a benchmark verdict in a “fen-phen” suit. The nation’s first trial over the diet drug settled on April 8 after four days of testimony ...

BOSTON — Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. has bet it can develop a drug from the same family as the notorious diet pill combination fen-phen -- and the gamble may be paying off. Arena, with a market value ...