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Thursday • September 18,
Doctors scramble to replace obesity drugs
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(AP) —With two weeks left on his
“fen-phen” prescription, Christopher
Burns has shed 60 pounds, bringing
his weight under 200 for the first time
since he was 15.
Burns just hopes to keep the
weight off when his prescription
runs out.
The 28-year-old Californian was
one of more than 200 exasperated
patients to call Dr. Dennis Tison
within 24 hours after Redux and fen
fluramine —- the “fen” in fen-phen—
were pulled off the market Monday
at the request of the Food and Dmg
Administration because the drugs
may cause deadly heart valve defects.
Doctors like Tison and the diet
centers that have made a business
of prescribing the obesity drugs
are scrambling for alternatives in
a frenzy of quickly arranged ap
pointments.
As the $40 billion diet indushy re
groups, furious patients feel doubly
wounded — first by the news that
these drugs may cause fatal ailments,
then by the recall of something that
has done what diets often couldn’t do.
“If the FDA is pulling the drug
now, did they not test the drug right
the first time? And if that’s true, we’re
going to have to question the ap
proval of other drugs,” said Burns, a
state legislative aide in Sacramento.
“Where were they when these drugs
were introduced before?”
Burns was drawn to fen-phen af
ter watching Verna King, who works
Thursi
a few offices away in the Calife
Capitol, go from 235 pounds to;
on the drugs. After quitting!
month, she has gained tin
pounds and is struggling to holill
current weight.
“This is a combination of dr,
that can directly help peoples
have been yo-yo dieting all ofil
lives,” said Ms. King, 56. The«
work is done: I lost the weight;
hard work is ahead of me: keep
it off."
Peanut allergy passed on
during organ transplant
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BOSTON (AP) — A man who re
ceived a new liver and kidney in an
organ transplant also got something
he didn’t want — an allergy to
peanuts.
French doctors described the un
usual case, which occurred eight
years ago, in Thursday’s issue of the
New England Journal of medicine.
A 22-year-old man who knew he
was allergic to peanuts ate them by
mistake when he had Chinese food
with satay sauce, which contains
peanuts. Fie fell into a coma and died.
Doctors gave his liver and right
kidney to a 35-year-old man and his
pancreas and left kidney to a 27-year-
old woman. Neither was told of the
cause of the organ donor’s death.
Three months later, the man suf
fered a skin rash and difficulty breath
ing after eating peanuts. After con
cluding he had a newly developed
allergy, the doctors fed peanuts to the
woman under close medical supervi
sion, but she showed no ill effects.
Doctors are unsure why one pa
tient got the allergy and the other did
not. They speculated that blood cells
primed to recognize peanuts as for
eign were passed along in the trans
planted liver.
Federal panel calls for approval of
narcotic lollipop for cancer paii
GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) — A
raspberry-flavored lollipop loaded
with narcotic pain-killer for treat
ment of cancer patients was recom
mended for federal approval
Wednesday, despite concerns about
accidental poisoning of children.
AFood and DrugAdministration
advisory panel voted unanimously
that the benefit to cancer patients
from the pain-killing candy far out
weighed the risk of young children
being harmed.
“Some kid, somewhere, some
how is going to do this (eat the
lollipop),” said Suzanna Brown, a
Portland, Ore., nurse and a mem
ber of the panel. “But dowede:
this benefit to cancer patientsf
that reason?”
FDA approval is required!)
fore the lollipop can be sold,b
the agency generally followsi
recommendations of advise
committees.
The lollipop, called Actiq, isic
manufactured by Anesta Coip.
Salt Lake City and marketed in pe
nership with Abbott laboratorie
The drug is actually a sug
based lozenge on a stick. Itisload
with fentanyl citrate, a narco
commonly used in other form
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