Controversial, Ill-Fated Obesity Drug Trial Published In JAMA

The final– but now largely useless– results of the cardiovascular safety trial of the obesity drug Contrave have now been published in JAMA, one year after the trial’s dramatic and scandalous crash and burn. By way of background: Contrave is a combination of naltrexone and bupropion marketed as a weight loss drug by Orexigen and...Click here to continue reading...
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