Sibutramine, an orally administered agent for the treatment of obesity
In a dissenting article, "Sibutramine: gone, but not forgotten", Professor David Haslam (ex-president of the Royal College of General Practitioners and currently chairman of the National Obesity Forum) says that the SCOUT study is flawed as it only covered high-risk patients and did not consider obese patients who do not have cardiovascular complications or similar contra-indications.