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2. 4 of the Top Prescription Weight Loss Pills & How They Work - AOL

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   Top Prescription Weight Loss Pills. Anti-obesity medications (AOMs) date back to the 1940s — well before modern regulations from the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) (FDA) were in place ...

3. The Health Risks and Benefits of Weight-Loss Drugs - AOL

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   Read More: Patients Are Suing Over Alleged Side Effects of Weight-Loss Drugs. The group found that people taking the GLP-1 medications had a lower risk of a number of health conditions, including ...

4. Anti-obesity medication - Wikipedia

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   The United States Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency have approved weight loss medications for adults with either a body-mass index (BMI) of at least 30, or a body-mass index of at least 27 with at least one weight-related comorbidity. This patient population is considered to have sufficiently high baseline health ...

5. Hydrochlorothiazide - Wikipedia

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   Hydrochlorothiazide, sold under the brand name Hydrodiuril among others, is a diuretic medication used to treat hypertension and swelling due to fluid build-up. [4] Other uses include treating diabetes insipidus and renal tubular acidosis and to decrease the risk of kidney stones in those with a high calcium level in the urine. [4]

6. Thiazide - Wikipedia

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   The thiazide drug class was discovered and developed at Merck and Co. in the 1950s. [3] The first approved drug of this class, chlorothiazide, was marketed under the trade name Diuril beginning in 1958. [3] In most countries, thiazides are the least expensive antihypertensive drugs available. [4]

7. Weight-loss drugs may boost health in many ways - AOL

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   The first study to assess how weight-loss drugs affect the whole of human health has discovered an "eye-opening" impact on the body, researchers say. The analysis, involving about two million ...