One of the most common diseases nowadays is obesity. It is present all over the world. It does not matter if you are in America, Europe, Asia, Africa or Australia. All you have to do is to let yourself seduced …

The following article introduces you, our reader, to a chronic smoker with a drinking problem who had a heart attack in 2006, some two months before the launch of Acomplia. He had a stent and the promise of counseling. His …

Rimonabant was the first diet pill that wanted to do things differently then the rest of the diet pills. It managed to get approval all over the world but not in the US. A new diet pill is getting out, …

Marijuana is a puzzling drug, and a contentious one at that. Pure THC is sold pharmaceutically (and DEA-OK), but the whole plant isn’t OK with the feds. That said, many states have decriminalized it for medical use. The pharmacology of …

One year ago millions of obese Americans were waiting to hear whether or not the Food and Drugs Agency would give approval to the diet drug rimonabant, banded as Acomplia in Europe. Obviously there was huge disappointment when this approval …