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FDA Panel Backs Orexigen's Contrave in Weight Loss

Dec. 8, 2010
By Donna Young
SILVER SPRING, Md. – Beating the odds, Orexigen Therapeutics Inc. won the backing of an FDA panel Tuesday for approval of the company's weight-loss drug Contrave (naltrexone/bupropion) – the only drug out of three recently reviewed at the agency to gain the Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee's blessing.
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