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  2. Orlistat - Wikipedia

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    Orlistat, sold under the brand name Xenical among others, is a medication used to treat obesity. Its primary function is preventing the absorption of fats from the human diet by acting as a lipase inhibitor, thereby reducing caloric intake. It is intended for use in conjunction with a healthcare provider-supervised reduced-calorie diet.

  3. Sibutramine - Wikipedia

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    Sibutramine is a serotonin–norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) that, in humans, reduces the reuptake of norepinephrine (by ~73%), serotonin (by ~54%), and dopamine (by ~16%), [ 22] thereby increasing the levels of these substances in synaptic clefts and helping enhance satiety; the serotonergic action, in particular, is thought to ...

  4. Cetilistat - Wikipedia

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    Cetilistat is a drug designed to treat obesity. It acts in the same way as the older drug orlistat (Xenical) by inhibiting pancreatic lipase, an enzyme that breaks down triglycerides in the intestine. Without this enzyme, triglycerides from the diet are prevented from being hydrolyzed into absorbable free fatty acids and are excreted undigested.

  5. Anti-obesity medication - Wikipedia

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    e. Orlistat (Xenical), the most commonly used medication to treat obesity and sibutramine (Meridia), a medication that was withdrawn due to cardiovascular side effects. Anti-obesity medication or weight loss medications are pharmacological agents that reduce or control excess body fat. These medications alter one of the fundamental processes of ...

  6. Bupropion - Wikipedia

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    Bupropion was originally called by the generic name amfebutamone, before being renamed in 2000. [ 16] In 2021, it was the eighteenth most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 29 million prescriptions. [ 38][ 39] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines.

  7. How to Save Time, Effort and Money with Multitasking - Engadget

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    Stand mixers. The stand mixer is a very popular appliance to have in the kitchen, especially among budding chefs and aspiring bakers. This product's ethos is to save a lot of time and effort ...

  8. Dosage form - Wikipedia

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    Dosage form. Dosage forms (also called unit doses) are pharmaceutical drug products in the form in which they are marketed for use, with a specific mixture of active ingredients and inactive components ( excipients ), in a particular configuration (such as a capsule shell, for example), and apportioned into a particular dose.

  9. JibJab's StoryBots will hook kids and their parents too

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    The apps can be downloaded for free, and there is sample content in them to test them out if you don't have a subscription. The music videos can also be seen on YouTube . It's a model that works ...