{"id":622,"date":"2010-05-28T10:10:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T18:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=622"},"modified":"2010-05-28T10:10:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T18:10:51","slug":"what-is-sibutramine-and-what-is-wrong-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"What is sibutramine and what is wrong with it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>Sibutramine  which is usually marketed as sibutramine hydrochloride monohydrate salt  is a drug used for oral administration for treatment of obesity. It is  basically an <span id=\"IL_AD2\">appetite suppressant<\/span>.  around 20 drug companies are marketing this drug under different brand  names. Administration and usage of this drug has invited serious  concerns about its safety. This has been suspended from use in the UK  and EU. European Medicine Agency (EMA) has recommended complete  withdrawal of the drug from European markets due to serious side  effects. Now India&#8217;s Top Drug Regulator, DGCI (Drugs Controller General  of India ) initiates steps to ascertain the safety profile of the  medicine. It asks the pharmacovigilance committee to take note of the  EMA decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sibutramine which is usually marketed as sibutramine hydrochloride monohydrate salt is a drug used for oral administration for treatment of obesity. It is basically an appetite suppressant. around 20 drug &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=622\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8042,8043,8044,8045],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-club","tag-sibutramine-hydrochloride-monohydrate-salt","tag-treatment-of-obesity","tag-what-is-sibutramine","tag-what-is-sibutramine-and-what-is-wrong-with-it","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}