Pa. weight-loss clinic owner charged with giving customers drugs meant for cows

The owner of a Pittsburgh-area weight-loss clinic is facing a federal charge after authorities said she gave her clients a drug that was

Nicole Millen has been charged with a single misdemeanor count of drug mislabeling, according to TribLive.

Officials said Millen, who operated the Pittsburgh clinics Renu Medical and Weight Loss and Choice Restorative Medicine, would meet with clients to help create a weight loss program for them.

But instead of dispensing Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, or HCG, she would instead give them Chorulon, a medicine prescribed by veterinarians for cows that are frequently in heat due to cystic ovaries.

“While it contained the same active ingredient as certain FDA-approved prescription drugs for humans, Chorulon was never approved for humans and its labeling,