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Fat Chance: Diet Mania, Greed, and the Infamous Fen-Phen Swindle
By Christman, Rick
- ISBN
- 9781949669305
- Publisher
- Univ. Pr. of Kentucky
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Reviewed on March 5, 2021 | Social Sciences
Christman (CEO, Employment Solutions; former community columnist, Lexington Herald-Leader) surveys the fallout from the release of the diet drugs Redux and fenfluramine/phentermine (fen-phen) in the mid-1990s, particularly as it played out in the Kentucky courts. The book unfolds in layers, starting out as an exposé of these fast-tracked drugs, which were ultimately pulled from the market owing to heart abnormalities experienced by patients. Physicians, as well as the drug company American Home Products (AHP...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
