The agency notes that many medicines to treat the disease have serious side effects while some carry risks.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

But brain stimulation was also shown to have more side effects than drug treatments.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

But now those side effects have apparently been replaced by something else: rapid weight gain, even in the first week of taking the drugs.

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

I do not have the side effects and it has made all the difference for me,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

It's a much safer pill and a lot of the difficulties have been worked out in terms of safety and side effects, not all of them, but there are still problems with the Pill.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12