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  • noun A serotonergic and anorectic drug.

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  • Arena had hoped its drug, called lorcaserin, would be the first new U.S. prescription weight-loss drug in more than a decade in a sector battered by serious side effects.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Arena had hoped its drug, called lorcaserin, would be the first new U.S. prescription weight-loss drug in more than a decade in a sector battered by serious side effects.

    Reuters: Top News 2010

  • WEDNESDAY, July 14 (HealthDay News) -- A weight-loss pill called lorcaserin not only helps people drop pounds but does so with few side effects, new industry-funded research reports.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • Arena had hoped its drug, called lorcaserin, would be the first new U.S. prescription weight-loss drug in more than a decade in a sector battered by serious side effects.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • The agency's rejection of the drug, called lorcaserin, was announced late Friday by the drug's developer

    NYT > Home Page By ANDREW POLLACK 2010

  • The third drug, called lorcaserin, is also antidepressant-like -- ironically, it's similar to the mood-improving ingredient in Fen-phen that was withdrawn -- and is also the only drug that is truly new.

    Home 2010

  • Its approach was to design a drug, known as lorcaserin, that would hit the same molecular "receptor" the fenfluramine component of Fen-phen targeted for weight loss, without hitting other receptors that caused side effects.

    AllBusiness.com - Home Page RSS 2010

  • Its approach was to design a drug, known as lorcaserin, that would hit the same molecular "receptor" the fenfluramine component of Fen-phen targeted for weight loss, without hitting other receptors that caused side effects.

    AllBusiness.com - Home Page RSS 2010

  • Its approach was to design a drug, known as lorcaserin, that would hit the same molecular "receptor" the fenfluramine component of Fen-phen targeted for weight loss, without hitting other receptors that caused side effects.

    AllBusiness.com - Home Page RSS 2010

  • The agency's rejection of the drug, called lorcaserin, was announced late Friday by the drug's developer,

    NYT > Home Page By ANDREW POLLACK 2010

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