All Five Prescription Diet Medicines On US Market Can Help People Lose Enough Weight To Improve Their Health, Review Finds.

reports that “all five prescription” diet medications currently on the “US market can help people lose enough weight to improve their health,” a review suggests. Those medications are Qsymia (phentermine-topiramate), Saxenda (liraglutide), Xenical, (orlistat), Belviq (lorcaserin) and Contrave (naltrexone-bupropion). The article mentions that physicans have been “relucutant to prescribe weight loss drugs” in part due to serious side-effects. A study presented at the Endocrine Society annual meeitng “showed that only 1 percent of obese patients eligible for prescription weight-loss drugs ever get prescriptions for them.” http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/which-diet-drug-works-best-it-may-depend-you-n592246