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Orexigen Boasts of Diet Pillโ€™s Heart Benefits; Regulators Not Happy

(National Monitor) โ€“ Orexigen Therapeutics saw its shares skyrocket to its highest point in 18 months after declaring that its diet pill, Contrave, had benefits to the bodyโ€™s cardiovascular system โ€” but regulators arenโ€™t happy with that announcement. Orexigen claimed that patients using Contrave had fewer adverse cardiovascular events or deaths than patients on a […]

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