Monday, 26 March 2012

Arena Pharma says EU is reviewing weight detriment drug

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. pronounced Monday that European Union regulators have supposed a selling focus for lorcaserin, a initial weight detriment drug. Its shares climbed 30 percent to a top turn given 2010.


Arena did not contend when it expects a European Medicines Agency to describe a decision. The association pronounced a row of Food and Drug Administration advisers will examination a drug on May 10.


The association is seeking capitulation to marketplace lorcaserin for patients who are overweight or portly and have during slightest one health problem associated to their weight. The drug’s categorical part is dictated to kindle serotonin receptors in a brain, creation patients feel confident with what they have eaten.


The FDA refused to approve lorcaserin in Oct 2010 given a group was not assured it was effective, and was endangered about links to tum...

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