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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two of
e nation’s most popular diet
ugs were pulled off the market
onday after the government un-
overed disturbing new evidence
hat they could seriously damage
jatients’ hearts.
The Food and Drug Adminis-
ration urged millions of dieters to
mmediately stop taking Redux,
known as dexfenfluramine,
nd Pondimiri, also known as fen-
luramine.
Pondimin is one-half of the wild-
y popular fen-phen diet combina-
ion; the other half, phentermine,
ippears safe when used by itself, the
-DA said.
But doctors said phentermine,
he sole remaining prescription diet
Irug, has only mixed results — and
hey predicted a surge of patients
iistraught both at the possibility
heir hearts were damaged and at
osing their treatments.
“We are anticipating lots of very
lesperate patients that need help,”
aid Dr. John Foreyt, an obesity ex-
jert at Baylor College of Medicine.
"Obesity does kill,” said Dr.
lichard Atkinson of the American
esity Association, who said many
;edux and Pondimin users will re-
pin their weight.
The FDA asked Wyeth-Ayerst
aboratories, which sells Redux
iere and whose parent company
nakes Pondimin, to withdraw the
rugs because of new evidence
hat they damage heart valves, and
he firm agreed.
The ITS. decision prompted the
tench company, Servier, that sells
enfluramine and dexfenflu-
mine abroad to withdraw the
worldwide.
The FDA had been struggling to
termine the drugs’ risk since it and
Mayo Clinic uncovered the first
ases in July. Last week, the FDA an-
lyzed heart tests on 291 dieters and
Dund almost a third — 92 people —
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(AP) — Rain pushed north by
Hurricane Linda helped slow a
wildfire that forced hundreds of
vacuations as it burned 1,500
cres and 11 homes in the San
ernardino Mountains.
Hours of rain were generated
unday by moisture drawn into
e region by Hurricane Linda,
undreds of miles of the Southern
alifornia coast. The blaze some
0 miles east of Los Angeles was
nostly contained early Tuesday.
The storm “really did us some
(good,” said Candace Vialpando, a
pokeswoman for the San
iBernardino National Forest. "The
pin they got up there this after-
loon really made a difference.”
About 300 people stayed in
[two evacuation centers Saturday
night and many more may have
sought shelter with friends and
relatives, Vialpando said. But
most were allowed back into their
homes.
Marci Syme and her husband
had lied and now fear their house
was burned.
“We know the mountain pret
ty well,” she said. “It looks like it’s
gone, but 1 won’t deal with that
until I have to look at it.”
The fire damaged or destroyed
11 permanent homes and week
end cabins and two outbuildings.
The blaze broke out Saturday
at a gun range, though it wasn’t
clear whether it was sparked by a
bullet or a shot striking a rock.
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Diet drugs recalled
The Food and Drug Administration today recommended that two popular
diet drugs be withdrawn from the market after being linked with serious
heart damage.
Heart valves
In a study of 291 patients who took the
drugs, 30 percent had abnormal
echocardiograms and developed problems
with their aoiaind mitral valve
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had damaged heart valves, even
though they had no symptoms.
That’s much higher than antici
pated. Less than 1 percent of the
general population has such dam
age to their aortic or mitral valves,
said Dr. Richard Bowen of Naples,
Fla., who tested 200 of the patients.
Most of the valves leaked blood, a
condition that over time can enlarge
the heart and seriously weaken it.
Also, the FDA analyzed 25 pa
tients who happened to have had
their hearts tested before ever taking
diet pills—and after taking the pills,
about a third were newly diagnosed
with valve damage.
Those patients are in addition to
99 other fenfluramine or Redux
users whose doctors have reported
to FDA actual symptoms of heart
damage, such as shortness of breath,
chest pain or swollen ankles. Three
of them died, and 17 underwent
AP
heart surgery.
The newest findings show the
drugs “present an unacceptable
risk,” said FDA Acting Commission
er Dr. Michael Friedman.
Wyeth-Ayerst’s Dr. Marc Deitch
called the withdrawal “the most
prudent course of action.” But he
said there is still not definitive
proof that the drugs are to blame,
and said Wyeth-Ayerst will within
a few weeks begin studying
whether obese people are natural
ly more prone to valve disease.
Meanwhile, dieters can return
unused portions of the drugs for a
refund.
Dieters should see their doctors
for close heart monitoring, Atkin
son said. But not everyone will
need an echocardiogram, a so
phisticated test that shows heart
function and costs between $500
and $1,000, he cautioned.
Weld gives up race for
Mexico ambassador
WASHINGTON (AP) — William
Weld gave up his battle to be ambas
sador to Mexico on Monday with a
scathing attack on Washington poli
tics and a defiant declaration that he
wouldn’t “go on bended knee” before
Jesse Helms or anyone else.
“Washington sure is a funny
town,” Weld said during a Wliite
House news conference in which he
criticized a Senate system in which
a conservative fellow Republican
could block even a hearing on his
nomination.
“I can go back to New England,
where no one has to approach the
government on bended knee to ask
it to do its duty,” said Weld, who re
signed as governor of Massachu
setts in July to pursue the Mexico
City post. “I’ve had enough ofWash-
ington for the next little while.”
President Clinton accepted
Weld’s withdrawal during a meeting
in the Oval Office and didn’t try to
talk him out of it, White House offi
cials said. Instead, the president
scored the rejection ofWeld without
a hearing.
“At a time when we have been
making strides towards a bipartisan
foreign policy, the treatment that
my nominee received reflected the
divisiveness that does not well serve
the American people,” Clinton said
in a statement.
The president didn’t appear at
Weld’s side at the news conference,
but the former governor said Clin
ton had strongly supported him
from the start.
Helms, R-N.C., the conservative
chairman of the Senate Foreign Re
lations Committee, refused to hold
a nomination hearing for the more
moderate Weld. Senate Majority
Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., support
ed Helms, saying Weld “didn’t han
dle himself well.”
“His conduct during this episode
has been baffling to me,” Lott said.
“I’ve had enough of
Washington for the next
little while.”
WILLIAM WELD
FORMER MASS. GOVERNOR
“There’s another agenda here I have
not quite figured out.”
Weld, who plans to back to the pri
vate sector, probably in investment
banking, has been mentioned as a
possible presidential candidate in
2000. He has frequently criticized
Washington’s way of doing business,
a common strategy for candidates.
The White House said it would
take time to find another nominee
as ambassador to Mexico, a job that
has been vacant since June.
“In many senses our review
process is back at the starting point
now,” spokesman Mike McCurry said.
Helms, forced by several of his
committee members to convene a
special meeting on Weld last Friday,
used the forum to catalogue scores
of cases in which nominees didn’t
get hearings. His unshakable
stance, coupled with Lott’s renewed
backing on Sunday, seemingly all
but ended Weld’s chances.
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