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Article: Sold for pounds 15 in just 15 minutes...the slimming pills linked to 15 deaths.(Features)
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- Sunday Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 2, 1998
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TWO doctors are selling controversial slimming pills for pounds 15 without carrying out vital checks on patients.
Official guidelines recommend that tablets such as Ionamin should only be prescribed to obese people.
But last week a Sunday Mirror journalist of average weight was sold Ionamin by both Dr Samuel Hales and Dr Pranjivandas Rajput, who have been raking in as much as pounds 1,000 a week from the sale of the drug at the Slim Care Diet Clinic.
An official report last year revealed that slimming tablets - which suppress the desire for food - ...