along with the prescription comes good advice and careful guidelines

GlaxoSmithKline who have the rights to sell and market the orlistat drug Alli in the United States are said to be disappointed with the sales of the drug. It has been on the market now for just over a year and is the only non prescription weight loss medication which has full approval from the Food and Drug Administration. It is in fact exactly the same as Xenical but comes in a lower dose.

Nevertheless GlaxoSmithKline did say that 4 million adults have tried the Alli weight loss drug but it hasn’t had the revolutionary effect on obesity in the United States that many people predicted. It goes to show that our reasoning at Ukmedix News has proved to be correct. We always maintain that using a weight loss medication can be useful but only if it is used in conjunction with a healthy lifestyle and exercise.

The great thing about the Xenical weight loss drug in the United Kingdom is that a doctor’s prescription is required to use it and therefore along with the prescription comes good advice and careful guidelines on how to use it.  Research shows that those people who get good weight loss advice with their weight loss medication are far more likely to succeed in losing weight than those people who use a drug like Xenical on its own.

In America technically pharmacists were supposed to provide weight loss advice along with the Alli drug but this obviously was not practical as getting advice over a busy pharmacy counter on how to lose weight does not compare to a consultation with a doctor either face to face or online at the Ukmedix web site. Ukmedix is committed to providing follow up patient care, the latest news and weight loss advice as well as a forum to discuss problems and issues concerning the use of various weight loss medications.

It is our belief that this combined approach is why Ukmedix is popular and successful and why people are so happy with the overall service.