STRONGER warnings about the new diet pill Redux (dexfenfluramine)

September 1996

The FDA just came out with STRONGER warnings about the new diet pill Redux (dexfenfluramine).

The risk of primary pulmonary hypertension is about twice as high as originally thought...but still only about 35 cases per million.

But keep this in perspective. The benefits far outweigh the risks. Twenty times more people die from complications of obesity than from primary pulmonary hypertension.

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