The Food and Drug Administration is moving to ban the weight-loss supplement ephedra, saying a comprehensive review has shown it’s too dangerous to remain on the market. The action, announced ...

But in the face of more than 16,000 reports of adverse reactions to ephedra -- including 155 deaths -- the U.S. Food and Drug Administration declared that the pills posed "an unreasonable risk of ...

When the wildly popular drug combo phen-fen was pulled from the market in 1997, people were forced to look elsewhere for weight-loss help. Many turned to a then-mysterious Chinese herb known as ma ...

But Ephedrine, the key chemical in ephedra, is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration as an ingredient in many over-the-counter decongestants and cold remedies.

While it’s likely that the drug did help her lose weight — ephedra does, like caffeine, decrease hunger pangs — it was immensely dangerous to dose an obese person, whose cardiovascular ...

One of the great medicines of all time, ephedra (Ephedra sinica) has been in use for as long as 5,000 years. Known as Ma Huang in traditional Chinese Medicine, ephedra is native to Central Asia.

Health Dangers of Herbal Drug Ephedra A Senate committee today takes up again the controversy over the popular weight-loss and energy products made from the chemical Ephedra. The products have ...

"There are a number of, quote-unquote, 'ephedra substitutes' on the market now where even less is known about potential side effects," Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Mark McClellan ...

However the drug arrived, in recent years meth use has seen an explosion in popularity in Afghanistan in part thanks to the lowered production costs of using the ephedra plant.

Ephedra users are looking for an alternative to the drug as the FDA is preparing to pull it off the market after being linked to 155 deaths and dozens of problems.