Physicians can legally prescribe medications for uses not specifically approved by the FDA. But most obesity doctors do so cautiously given the history of diet pills removed from the market due to serious side effects including death.
German drug giant Bayer failed to tell the U.S. Food and Drug Administration of a study that connected a controversial heart surgery drug to dangerous side effects and death, even as FDA convened a panel of experts to evaluate the drug's safety.
Regional expert David Hartwell agreed that Gadhafi's death could have "ripple effects" in the region, spreading the way the Arab Spring did.
Hunt acknowledged, though, that by selling a famous athlete's personal effects after his death, a family can be perceived as acting crassly or attempting a quick cash grab.
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Since obesity is estimated to show a lag time of about 25 years before more complete effects on premature death and disease are seen, public health experts predict an enormous impact on world-wide health and life expectancy in the future.
While the surgeries are successful at helping people lose weight and reduce their risk for hypertension, diabetes and other chronic illnesses -- patients have to carefully weigh the benefits of the procedure with the serious risks, side effects and even death in some cases.
Biographer and longtime friend Tony Dalton confirmed the special-effects titan's death, saying it was too soon to tell the exact cause.
Cholera's effects go beyond the death toll.
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The rarest and most feared of side effects is, of course, death.
Thus the narrator only suffers the full effects of his beloved grandmother's death when he later stays at the same hotel at Balbec, where they had once stayed together.
The new label adds a clearer warning regarding the risk of rare muscle-weakening side effects that can lead to kidney damage or death.
The mountain's summit stands at 8, 848 metres high, and beyond 7, 600 metres climbers enter what is known as the "death zone" - so called because of the serious effects of oxygen deprivation on the body.
Prof Robert West, from the health behaviour research unit at University College London, said it was important to remember that smoking had more effects on the body than leading to an early death, such as ageing the skin.
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The death of Abdul Haq was certainly a blow to these hopes, but perhaps its effects were more psychological than strategic.
Before the discovery of Chicxulub, the climate-changing effects of these eruptions had been put forward as an explanation for the death of the dinosaurs.
It's important to note, however, that Kadcyla is not the same as Herceptin and could cause serious side effects including liver problems and heart problems such as congestive heart failure or even death.
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