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Triple-Whammy Weight Loss.
More seems to be, well, more when it comes to getting patients to lose weight.
Weight loss programs that make aggressive use of behavioral modification therapy, diet, and drug therapy significantly improve patient outcomes at 1 year, compared with single- or even dual-modality approaches, Dr. Robert I. Berkowitz said at a meeting sponsored by the American Obesity Association in Washington.
Dr. Berkowitz and his associates at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, randomly assigned 20 patients to sibutramine (Meridia) alone, 17 patients to sibutramine and behavioral modification therapy, and 18 patients ...
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