Acomplia, generic name rimonabant, suffered a new setback on March 4th when the social court in Berlin-Brandenburg upheld a previous court ruling that German patients taking Sanofi-Aventis’s diet drug will not be reimbursed by their health insurers.

While Acomplia …

There is only one thing that makes people fat, and that is excess calories. It takes a deficit or surplus of 3,500 calories to lose or gain one single pound of body fat. That deficit or surplus is decided by …