OKLAHOMA CITY -- Fen-Phen was once hailed as a medical breakthrough for people struggling with weight loss, but the drug has recently pulled from the market after being linked to heart and lung ...

The Kentucky Supreme Court today permanently disbarred lawyer Stanley Chesley, the prominent tort lawyer and Democratic Party kingmaker who got entangled in a scandal over fen-phen litigation that ...

MARGE FRIEL HAS NEVER had much luck with diets. ""I can lose weight,'' she says, ""but keeping it off is more difficult. I lose my moti-vation.'' Fen-phen changed that. The 48-year-old secretary ...

Even in a litigation-obsessed nation, fen-phen stands alone. After reports that the diet drug damaged heart valves, American Home Products, now Wyeth, pulled its fen-phen products and girded itself ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a 71-year-old healthy female who has struggled with my weight all my life. In the ‘90s, I thought I had finally found the solution in fen-phen. It was like a miracle! It took all ...

Philadelphia, PA - Thousands of heart-damage claims made by former users of fenfluramine-phentermine (fen-phen) are invalid, argue lawyers of the New Jersey-based company Wyeth, former manufacturer of ...

In 1997, the popular diet drug Fen-phen was pulled from the market. Its makers, American Home Products, quietly paid out billions in confidential settlements for the heart problems the medicine caused ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--While the legal chapters on fen-phen will soon close forever, the effects of the once-popular diet drug will remain for years to come. An estimated six million Americans took ...

NEW YORK — American Home Products Corp. said Friday that a Texas jury has awarded a woman $56.5 million for heart damage she said was caused by two company diet drugs once used in the fen-phen ...

Two timely events -- the publication of a finger-pointing book and the finalization of a multi-billion-dollar settlement of a class action lawsuit -- are returning the spotlight to fen-phen, the diet ...

The Kentucky Court of Appeals has reversed a $42 million judgment against three disbarred lawyers accused of unlawfully taking millions of dollars from their clients in a $200 million fen-phen diet ...

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