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  • FDA panel recommends OK for over-the-counter diet pill

    01/24/2006 3:47:05 AM PST · by AZRepublican · 10 replies · 654+ views
    CNN ^ | 1/24/06 | AP
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health advisers voted Monday to recommend over-the-counter sales of a weight-loss pill now sold only with a prescription. GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare still needs final Food and Drug Administration approval before it can sell a nonprescription version of orlistat, a diet pill already marketed in prescription form as Xenical. The FDA approved the prescription version of the fat-blocking pill made by Roche in 1999. A joint FDA advisory committee voted 11-3 to recommend approval late Monday after a daylong hearing. The agency usually follows the recommendations of its outside panels of experts, but its final decision could...