Meridia Diet Pill

Side effects of Meridia diet pill have resulted in the deaths of 29 people. Meridia diet pill is considered to be only “minimally effective” has caused a significant increase in blood pressure and heart rate in many people. To learn more about your rights regarding the dangerous side effects of Meridia diet pill, CONTACT US.

Side effects of Meridia diet pill can include:

• PPH, or primary pulmonary hypertension
• Stroke
• Seizures
• Increase in blood pressure
• Heart disease
• Increase in heart rate
• Mental impairments
• Increased sweating
• Headaches
• Dry Mouth
• Anorexia
• Constipation
• Insomnia

Meridia Diet Pill

Meridia Diet Pill Petition

Public Citizen pushes the FDA to ban Meridia diet pill. This is the fifth petition Public Citizen has pushed for since 1996.

·Meridia wanted immediately removed from U.S. market
March 19, 2002, Public Citizen

Public Citizen filed a petition telling the FDA to immediately remove Meridia diet pill because the link between 29 deaths and hundreds of serious Meridia diet pill side effects. Public Citizen claims the FDA knew that approval of the sibutramine drug would significantly increase blood pressure and heart rates with only minimal benefits.

·Public Citizen asks the FDA to immediately ban Meridia weight loss pill
March 19, 2002, Public Citizen

Watchdog group Public Citizen has submitted a petition to the FDA to immediately ban Meridia diet pill, the brand name for sibutramine, due to the risks of heart complications that outweigh the “minimally effective” drug. Side effects of Meridia diet pill include increased blood pressure and heart rates. The Meridia diet pill was pulled off the Italian market after two deaths were associated to its use, and now other European governments are reviewing the serious and potentially fatal side effects. Public Citizen also supports an increased standard for FDA approval of diet drugs that requires drug manufacturers to display actual health benefits.

·Public Citizen’s Petition to the FDA for the immediate ban of diet drug Meridia
March 19, 2002, Public Citizen

Public Citizen submitted a petition to Tommy Thompson, the Secretary to the Department of Health and Human Services on March 19, 2002. The conclusion of whether or not the effect of sibutramine, Meridia diet pill, benefits outweigh the risks Public Citizen stated:

The known serious risks of sibutramine might be acceptable if there were evidence that it prevented one stroke or heart attack or prolonged the life of a single patient. Such evidence is lacking for sibutramine as well as for other diet drugs, leaving patients with only the risk of injury from their use and expensive drug bills. This disproportionate risk compared to any known therapeutic benefit of sibutramine was seen by the FDA medical officer and the members of the Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee who recommended against its approval.

Meridia diet pill should never have been approved, and in the interest of the safety of the American public it must come off the market now. The FDA must reexamine the episode of Dr. Knox and fenfluramine and reject an approval standard for diet drugs that only requires short-term studies, which demonstrate the statistical superiority of a drug over a placebo.

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