The Food and Drug Administration has denied a petition by a consumer group to ban the prescription weight-loss drug Meridia (sibutramine) made by Abbott Laboratories Inc.
The petition, filed by Public Citizen in March 2002 and renewed in September 2003, asserted that Meridia was related to heart attacks and strokes. It cited 49 heart-related deaths and […]

Public Citizen, a national consumer advocacy organization, has renewed its call to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to immediately withdraw the prescription diet drug Meridia from the market–due to the rising number of deaths and serious adverse reactions associated with Meridia.
“The reactions are serious, the number of victims is rising rapidly and the effectiveness […]

Public Citizen, a nationwide consumer organization, petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to immediately ban Meridia, the popular weight-loss drug made by Abbott Laboratories, after 19 deaths were reported as possibly related to the drug.
Abbot said the deaths had not been proven to be related to Meridia and that in any case the number […]