Article: Weight-loss centers won't prescribe them.

The diet pill craze appears to be history.

One of the Bay State's largest chains of diet pill centers announced yesterday it will no longer prescribe "fen/phen," the controversial weight-loss drugs that have been linked to a host of medical problems.

"The numbers of patients who suffer heart and vascular problems from fen/phen seem to increase by the day," said Andrew Rudnick, director of Medical Weight Loss Centers.

Rudnick, who claims to have lost 60 pounds by taking fen/phen, said the recent studies linking the drugs to heart and lung problems and even possibly to brain damage "are too overwhelming to ignore."

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