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March 17, 2008, 5:26 pm
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Simular to the drug Fen-Phen, lorcaserin is designed to stimulate a protein in the brain that makes people feel full without boosting a similar protein that caused fen-phen to damage heart valves.

If Lorcaserin can help people lose weight for a year, Arena said it will ask U.S. regulators for approval in 2009. The drug would be Arena's first marketed product and may generate more than $1 billion a year in sales, analysts said.

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I think this drug needs to face a lot of safety testing. Too many drugs that address non-fatal conditions are approved before we have a real sense of how safe it is.

I would hope when and if this is approved it is limited to carefully monitored use by those with mobid obesity or proven difficulty with that particular brain chemical.

I don't know why everyone is so quick to jump on the band wagon, for a new diet drug. I have heard too many horror stories from different diet drugs.