Obesity Organizations Encouraged by Positive Outcome for New Treatment Option
in 2010 News Releases, News Releases on December 7, 2010

TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 7, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Obesity Action Coalition (OAC), The Obesity Society (TOS) and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) found encouragement in the outcome of today’s advisory committee hearing, favoring approval for the first new obesity treatment in more than 10 years. Today, the FDA Endocrine and Metabolic
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Obesity Organizations Call for a Full and Fair Hearing When the FDA Reviews New Treatments for Obesity
in 2010 News Releases, News Releases on December 6, 2010

SILVER SPRING, Md., Dec. 6, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Obesity Society (TOS) and the Obesity Action Coalition (OAC) today called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to consider the urgent need for more tools to address the obesity epidemic facing more than 93 million Americans as they convene an advisory panel to review a
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