The Importance of Testing for Weight Loss Drugs

Fen fen and Redux got fast tracked through the FDA approval process because of the amount of excitement about a possible weight loss drug. It was ultimately pulled from the market because it caused people's lungs to fill with fluid and drowned them. The National Institutes of Health lowered the threshold for people to have quote unquote overweight or obese BMI's. So this is a medical solution to something that was increasingly being defined as a medical problem.