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Opinion: Unregulated weight-loss drugs must be stopped

Attorney and nurse Kerr Vidrine warns that unregulated, foreign products claiming to be a new weight-loss drug called “reta” are being marketed online, especially to teens, and calls on Sen. Bill Cassidy to press the FDA director nominee Heidi Overton to have a plan to stop it.

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