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Weight loss drug Belviq pulled from market over cancer risk

by AP Medical Writer
| February 14, 2020 12:05 AM

The maker of a weight loss drug pulled it from the market Thursday at the request of federal regulators, who said it posed a slight increased risk of cancer.

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