USA TODAY: …Qsymia (pronounced kyoo-sim-ee-uh), which suppresses appetite and increases the feeling of fullness, boosts patients’ weight loss when used along with a diet and exercise plan. Until now, the drug had been called Qnexa. Some experts are concerned that the drug raised the heart rates slightly in some patients.
This is the second medication to fight obesity that the Food and Drug Administration has approved this summer after going for more than a decade without OK’ing a diet drug…
Qsymia will change the “landscape” for the treatment of obesity, says W. Timothy Garvey, chair of the department of nutrition sciences at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, who studied Qsymia. But he cautions, “This is not a magic pill. Patients can’t take it and think that’s all they have to do. It needs to be used with a lifestyle modification program.”… (more)
