As spring swells and climbs through the canyons of the Colorado Plateau, green ephedra, also called Mormon tea, Ephedra viridis, produces structures at its branch nodes, and they produce tiny yellow ...

WASHINGTON — The ephedra industry, disputing reports linking the herbal stimulant to the death of Baltimore Oriole pitcher Steve Bechler, insisted Thursday that its product is safe and, as proof, ...

HOUSTON -- Ephedra-free may not necessarily mean danger-free. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's announcement earlier this week that it will ban the sale of herbal weight-loss products containing ...

Liz Walters used to spend every spring struggling to catch her breath. Scarred by a childhood illness, her lungs worked overtime when the season's fresh pollens filled the air. Two different inhalers ...

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The once-booming ephedra business hit lean times in 2003, with sales falling about 60% as retailers and manufacturers dropped the controversial dietary supplement in advance of the federal ...

Ephedra, an herb found in weight-loss and bodybuilding supplements, is unsafe even when taken in recommended doses and should be restricted, according to doctors who studied reports of bad reactions ...

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 ...

Your recent column was objectionable because it painted ephedra as a villain among supplements. There seems to be a concerted effort by the medical establishment to tarnish herbs at every turn so that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ephedra (ma huang) is an ephedra alkaloid botanical (primarily ephedrine and pseudoephedrine) with sympathomimetic activity. Ephedra can have a substantial effect on the cardiovascular and central ...