Its only been a few weeks since the Food and Drug Administration announced the ban on products containing the herb ephedra, but the health food industry has hardly skipped a beat. As a substitute for ...

One lot of over-the-counter weight loss drug Lipodrene w/25mg Ephedra Extract Dietary Supplement has been recalled for the presence of an illegal ingredient that the FDA says can cause several serious ...

Call them the ephedra wars. For the past five years, the FDA has been trying to restrict the availability of ephedra, an herbal stimulant and the active ingredient in hundreds of popular diet aids and ...

The ban is likely to be met with litigation from manufacturers who dispute the agency's assertion that ephedra is a health risk. It was blamed in the death of Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler ...

Barbara J. Michal’s son died in 1997, one of dozens of people whose deaths are linked to the once-popular diet drug ephedra. So she praised a federal judge’s decision Monday to allow a nationwide ban ...

A dietary supplements company has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s ban on supplements containing ephedra. The supplements were widely used for weight loss and ...

The first comparative study to examine the risk of taking ephedra with that of taking other commonly used herbs calls into question the herbal stimulant’s current standing as an unrestricted dietary ...

The federal government yesterday strongly warned people against using ephedra and said it would seek new ways to regulate the dietary supplement, including warning labels and, possibly, a ban on ...

ST. PAUL (AP) -- Minnesota Vikings attorneys claim that Korey Stringer's use of the controversial supplement ephedra can be linked to the heatstroke that killed him during training camp in 2001, ...

An international group of researchers led by the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria have uncovered the earliest evidence of Ephedra use from the charred remains of the plant in a 15,000-year-old ...

April 9, 2003 (San Diego, CA) -- After Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler died during spring training earlier this year, the spotlight again turned on the dietary supplement ephedra. The Chinese ...