1.   A new diet drug that suppresses the appetite is helping people shed pounds without having to exercise or fuss with meal plans.

2.   American Home Products also is expected to see profit rise even after stopping sales of its diet drugs in September.

3.   American Home, however, has fewer financial resources than Pfizer and may have some liabilities still to come from its problems with the fen-phen diet drug.

4.   At that time, the FDA issued an initial public warning and asked for reports of any problems patients or doctors encountered using the diet drugs.

5.   Because of a reporting error, a Boston Globe story about diet drugs gave the wrong name for one of two diet drugs recently removed from the market.

6.   Both companies and the FDA are already face lawsuits over the possible link between the valve disorders and the use of the diet drugs.

7.   A group of John Hopkins University scientists have produced what seems to be a miracle diet drug capable of turning off appetite with virtually zero side effects.

8.   Afraid to take fen-phen, now that a medical study has linked the diet drug to heart and lung damage?

9.   But last year, the journal ran an editorial saying that the benefits of diet drugs outweigh the risks.

10.   Conventional diet drugs have had only modest effects in helping people lose weight and keep it off.