Talk of the Nation Ephedra & Diet Supplements August 19, 200212:00 AM ET Heard on Talk of the Nation ...

The Food and Drug Administration plans to ban the use of ephedra in dietary supplements. Ephedra, which is commonly used as a weight loss aid and athletic performance enhancer, has been linked to ...

By WIRE Nov 29, 2000 Nov 29, 2000Updated Mar 30, 2012 0 ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Feb. 18 -- -- A dietary supplement containing the herbal stimulant ephedra may have contributed to the death Monday of Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler, Broward ...

C all 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 ...

Lerner has tried many different varieties of diet pills in her quest to get thin, and she is not alone. Each year Americans spend more than $18 billion on the roughly 29,000 varieties of appetite ...

Women between the ages of 14 to 36 who used diet pills were five times more likely to develop an eating disorder in the next one to three years than those who did not take pills, according a study ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Attorneys for the Minnesota Vikings claim the diet supplement ephedra contributed to Korey Stringer's death from heatstroke at training camp in 2001 and that Stringer's remains ...

Toxicology tests found that "significant amounts" of an over-the-counter supplement containing ephedra, which has been linked to heatstroke and heart trouble, is partly to blame for Bechler's death.