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Reporters from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today examined five new diet drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration since 2012, the first approvals after a 13-year period in which no such drugs were approved.

Min tolkning: Journalister från Milwaukee Journal Sentinel och MedPage Today har undersökt fem nya bantningspreparat som godkänts av U.S. Food and Drug Administration sedan 2012, de första efter en period om 13 år där inga sådana preparat godkändes.

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