Weight Loss Drug Alli under FDA Investigation

WASHINGTON Regulators say they decided to act after receiving more than thirty reports of liver damage in patients taking Alli and Xenical ... a prescription version of the drug.

Twenty-seven patients had to be hospitalized and six suffered liver failure. /*Alli*/ and Xenical are both marketed by British drug maker -- GlaxoSmithKline

The FDA says it has not established a definitive relationship between the weight loss drugs and liver injury.

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