Discontinued diet drug fen-phen was marketed by Wyeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Merck Continues To Fight For Vioxx] Reference

No one knows how fen-phen might cause valvular disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weighty Problems] Reference

In the past, Americans have taken fen-phen and ephedra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trisha Gura: The Things They Eat for Love] Reference

Furthermore, past failures most notably fen-phen in the 1990s have bred caution.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Diet Drugs Must Pass Unique Test] Reference

With the exception of the fen-phen combo, new obesity medicines have not been big hits.    From Wordnik.com.  [July's Biotech Busts And Breakthroughs] Reference

But heart valves would only encounter plasma serotonin, which fen-phen actually decreases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weighty Problems] Reference

American Home Products changed its name, but even as Wyeth it's still associated with fen-phen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tort "Reform" 2] Reference

Vioxx, Rezulin, fen-phen and Bextra (just to name a few) all injured or killed thousands of people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Weisbrod: Big Pharma Won't Police Itself] Reference

It would take just over 1,500 such verdicts for Vioxx liability to reach fen-phen like proportions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Choppy Trading Continues For Biotech] Reference

Trial lawyers Paul Napoli, Marc Bern and Mario D'Angelo predict another wave of sick fen-phen users.    From Wordnik.com.  [1996 Wyeth’s new diet drug,...] Reference

Aug. 27 Mayo Clinic and Wyeth-Ayerst announce a study to investigate fen-phen and heart-valve disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [After Fen-Phen] Reference

One of the plaintiff's lawyers is Andy Birchfield, an acquaintance of mine from the fen-phen litigation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legal Underground:] Reference

Instead of modeling his analyses on fen-phen, Krensavage points to a different dangerous drug: nicotine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forget Vioxx?Forget Vioxx: The Bull Case For Merck] Reference

And some obesity specialists are touting a new Prozac-based concoction as a safe alternative to fen-phen.    From Wordnik.com.  [After Fen-Phen] Reference

The drug targets the same appetite pathway fen-phen did but in a more selective, and perhaps safer, manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorcaserin: Diet Pill Shows Promise, Little Risk] Reference

The Association of Trial Lawyers of America has already formed a 100-lawyer fen-phen group to press for damages.    From Wordnik.com.  [After Fen-Phen] Reference

But the same issue contained a commentary from two academic researchers that downplayed the health dangers of fen-phen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kept University] Reference

A low point came in 1997 when the popular "fen-phen" was pulled from the market after it was tied to heart valve problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorcaserin: Diet Pill Shows Promise, Little Risk] Reference

I'm still traveling for fen-phen depositions and, when I'm not, preparing for the Vioxx trial that's coming up in October.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legal Underground:] Reference

One of Merck's major goals in settling is to avoid a situation like the one Wyeth had in its fen-phen diet-drugs litigation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vioxx Settlement Plan] Reference

More billions for bogus claims in the diet drug (fen-phen) and silicone breast implant litigations can be added to this bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [DOJ's Free Pass for Tort Fraud] Reference

Full disclosure: My firm works with Carey & Danis on fen-phen, Vioxx, Bextra, asbestos cases, as well as a few other matters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legal Underground:] Reference

But the balance changed in July, when researchers start-ed identifying fen-phen users with waxy deposits on their heart valves.    From Wordnik.com.  [After Fen-Phen] Reference

(Full disclosure: My firm works with Carey & Danis on fen-phen, Vioxx, Bextra, asbestos cases, as well as a few other matters.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legal Underground:] Reference

The fen-phen settlement permitted patients who later determined that they had heart-valve damage to pursue claims against Wyeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Merck's Tactics Largely Vindicated] Reference

The mechanism is similar to the one used by a component of the recalled fen-phen drug combination, but with an important difference.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regulators to Review New Drugs to Curb Appetite] Reference

The diet drug fenfluramine, which was half of the fen-phen combination, was withdrawn in 1997 after it was linked with heart damage.    From Wordnik.com.  [FDA To Review First Of 3 New Weight Loss Drugs] Reference

About a half hour ago, a federal jury in the Eastern District of Missouri returned a verdict against Wyeth in a fen-phen valve case.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legal Underground:] Reference

If it approves the drug, it will be the first weight loss drug approved in about a decade, since fen-phen was pulled from the market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arena Makes Deal On Obesity Drug] Reference

They seemed like quick fixes for the overweight-until this summerJuly 8 Mayo Clonic reports valvular heart disease in 24 fen-phen users.    From Wordnik.com.  [After Fen-Phen] Reference

The drug is a combination of an existing antiseizure medicine and phentermine, which was the other half of fen-phen and is still available.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diet Drugs Face FDA Scrutiny] Reference

Ms Wier took fen-phen for about three months starting in October 1996, and was diagnosed with primary pulmonary hypertension 5 years later.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fen-Phen May Cause Rummage Sale of Wyeth Assets] Reference

A 51-year-old Idaho woman has had to have three of four heart valves replaced, thanks to the now-banned diet drug, fen-phen.    From Wordnik.com.  [NewsInferno] Reference