FDA Panel Votes Against Arena’s Diet Drug

Another diet drug, Arena Pharmaceuticals’s Iorcaserin, appears to be in danger after a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted to reject it Thursday.
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U.S. Poverty Rate Hits a 15-Year Peak

More than 43 million Americans were living in poverty in 2009, the largest number recorded in the 51 years of published estimates. One in five children are affected. The Census Bureau reports that the percentage of people witho…