Ephedra could be back on the market in the United States, nearly 16 months after the use of the herbal dietary supplement was prohibited over health concerns. Judge Tena Campbell on Thursday struck ...

Some of the weight-loss aids that have quickly emerged to replace the now-banned substance ephedra may carry risks of their own, a small study suggests. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

Droves of dieters, body builders, and athletes snatched all the ephedra they could after a federal ban threatened their supply earlier this month. The herbal supplement contained in many brand name ...

For Jason Vickrey, the federal government's decision to ban the sale of ephedra comes three years too late. The Pasadena man, a basketball all-American at Sam Rayburn High School, in 2000 started ...

We are part of The Trust Project. While the Feb. 17 death of 23-year-old Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler was a shock, ephedra's role in it wasn't. The amphetamine-like stimulant used for ...

A dietary supplements company has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s ban on supplements containing ephedra. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

Snyder's Drug Stores Inc., which bills itself as the largest regional drugstore chain in the Midwest, is eliminating the sale of ephedra-based products, and other area pharmacies also have limited or ...

A controversial herbal supplement is under fire again, this time by U.S. Senator Dick Durbin. The Illinois Senator is calling for a statewide ban of ephedra. Senator Durbin has been working to remove ...

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 ...

WHEN THE BUSH administration announced it would ban ephedra last week, an annoying itch teased my calcifying memory. But I couldn't pull up the recollection. I did what you would do. I went to my ...