Article: Clinics dish out suspect diet pills

Article: SINK OR SLIM; FAT CHANCE: DOES THE NEW DIET PILL REALLY WORK?(Features)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  April 15, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Xenical is not like other slimming pills. It blocks the bodily...are pumping out these slimming pills like Smarties - for...unscrupulous private slimming clinics. He said: Lots of drugs...reputable and many private slimming clinics hand over anything...Doctor Houtman ...

Article: Slimming pill women `ripped off' by clinics.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  February 10, 1999 ;     239 words ......not need, it was claimed yesterday. A report accuses slimming clinics of cashing in on the potentially dangerous slimming pills. Undercover researchers working for the Consumers' Association...help people. The Consumers' Association, who visited slimming clinics across England, are ...

Article: MP'S BID TO CURB SLIMMING CLAIMS.(News)
Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland);  November 16, 1997 ;     77 words ......using unhealthily-thin models. Her Bill would ensure that slimming pills and potions could be acquired only through a doctor. She...warnings that rapid weight loss can damage health. And slimming clinics should issue similar warnings.

Article: SINK OR SWIM; SPECIAL ON THE DIET PILL REVOLUTION.(Features)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  October 16, 1996 ;     700+ words ......But now a new generation of fatbuster slimming pills has revolutionised the diet industry...though more and more people are trying slimming pills ... there is widespread confusion about...and use drugs. There are two types of slimming pills. The first and best-known are ...

Article: No short cut to slimming, say doctors
The Independent - London;  May 29, 1997 ;     582 words ...Slimming pills offer no cure for the overweight and should only be...last government in response to concern that private slimming clinics were handing out pills without proper medical checks...ideal is not achievable with these drugs," he said. "Slimming" pills was a misnomer because ...

Article: The drugs don't work; Susan Lee talks to a woman who was hooked on slimming pills.(Features)
Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);  November 6, 2001 ;     595 words ......for wrongly prescribing controversial slimming pills. But if you're tempted to regard them...was prescribed her first supply of slimming pills. This was the 1970s. I'd tried dieting...patients by unsuitably prescribing slimming pills. There are a good few bucks to be made...

Article: `Do not buy unregistered slimming pills'
New Straits Times;  May 30, 2002 ;     456 words ......05-30-2002 `Do not buy unregistered slimming pills' Byline: Annie Freeda Cruez Edition...National KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. - Do not buy slimming pills which are not registered and endorsed...Malaysians, especially women, who resort to slimming pills to reduce their weight. "These drugs...

Article: Slimming pills. (Look Out Post).(deaths result from use of pills)(Brief Article)
Look Japan;  October 1, 2002 ;     29 words ...* Imported slimming pills from China are being blamed for at least four deaths and over 150 cases of illness in Japan. The products have been linked to at least two other deaths in Asia.

Article: Shape Up South Wales: IT'S A BITTER PILL; Beware of dangers in taking slimming aids.(Features)
South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  February 19, 2003 ;     654 words ......the low-down on slimming pills? All health professionals...unaware that some slimming pills can trigger serious...These include slimming pills, which can be...available at private slimming clinics; and natural...amphetamine-based slimming pills. It also ...

Article: Slim-pills timebomb threat to thousands.
Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England);  February 8, 1998 ;     462 words ......problems after taking controversial slimming pills. Two drugs, which have now been banned...women worried about the effects of the slimming pills they have taken to contact their GPs...Yardley, Birmingham, was trapped in a slimming pills nightmare for 20 years. She was sold...

Article: Don: Exercising, proper diet better than slimming pills
New Straits Times;  June 21, 2002 ;     232 words ......Exercising, proper diet better than slimming pills Edition: Main/Lifestyle; 2* Section...judiciously and exercising is far better than slimming pills in the battle to lose weight. This...exercising. "You don't have to take slimming pills to lose weight." He said the public...

Article: Fergie diet pills wrecked my life; Terrifying legacy of bid to lose weight ..(Features)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  May 30, 1996 ;     346 words ......Jennifer Catiz's life was ruined by the slimming pills which left the Duchess of York's mind...a weight fixation and over- use of slimming pills could have contributed to her marriage...first started taking amphetamine-based slimming pills when she went to America when she was...

Article: Getting high on slimming pills
New Straits Times;  January 29, 2006 ;     142 words ...New Straits Times 01-29-2006 Getting high on slimming pills Edition: New Sunday Times IF YOUR new year's vow to...tests, people have lost about 12.7kg in two years. But slimming pills have a long history of inducing unwanted side-effects...

Article: Weighty problem of slimming pills in the spotlight.(Features)
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  July 21, 2003 ;     141 words ......slimmers and there are literally hundreds of fad diets and slimming pills on the market promising the Earth. The experts say the best...calorie intake and exercising and are absolutely against slimming pills, which they say can have nasty side effects. But many dieters...