Fat chance : diet mania, greed, and the infamous fen-phen swindle
"During the early 1990s, the diet drugs Phen-fen and Redux achieved tremendous popularity. The chemical combination was discovered by chance, marketed with hyperbole, and prescribed in the millions. But as the drugs' developer, pharmaceutical giant American Home Products, raced to cash in on the miracle weight-loss pills, their bubble burst when medical researchers revealed that the drugs caused heart valve disease. This scandal was, incredibly,...