1.   But just how does a pharmaceutical company market a pill that sounds a lot like something that has just been withdrawn?

2.   But they and Roussel Uclaf, the French firm which originally developed and marketed the pill, are all owned by the same parent company, Hoechst AG.

3.   Chattem Pharmaceuticals, the maker of Dexatrim, has already begun marketing the pills using ephedra, an herbal stimulant.

4.   Corfman said the FDA had asked several large companies to market the pills, but they refused.

5.   In February the Food and Drug Administration notified Danco Laboratories, which plans to market the pill here, that final approval was near.

6.   Mackenzie said he decided to market the pills at the urging of the Food and Drug Administration.

7.   Schering-Plough, pending regulatory approval, will market another pill for impotence, Vasomax, with the help of Zonagen, a tiny Texas biotech company.

8.   There have also been numerous reports that some diet businesses are unscrupulously marketing the pills.

9.   While authorities say they may be able to rein in domestic companies marketing pills on line, they acknowledge that the bulk of the business is conducted overseas.

10.   But Leiner Health Products Inc. and Pharmavite, both California vitamin makers, plan to market the pills.