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Transcript: REPRIEVE FOR REDUX?
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- ABC Good Morning America
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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LISA McREE, Host: The widely used diet drug Redux was pulled off the
market last year for fear it caused heart problems. But a new study
released yesterday showed no significant heart problems among Redux
patients. Redux and drugs like it were always known to have some
risk, but patients struggling with obesity were ready to take them
anyway. In fact, patients who weren't even obese, who just wanted
to lose 10 pounds, wanted to take them anyway.
Joining us again, Dr. Tim Johnson in Boston. And with us here, Dr.
Louis Aronne. He's an obesity specialist at New York ...