SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gray Davis, acting on a final batch of bills, has signed legislation to ban the sale of diet pills that contain the potent stimulant ephedra, in a move that could further ...

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. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal ...

The claim: "Stimulates metabolic rate and promotes fat loss" Primary active ingredients: Synephrine (60 mg) and Coleus forskohlii (375 mg) Synephrine is ephedra's chemical cousin, but it may be a ...

The new ban on ephedra will protect us from harm, right? Don't count on it: The same hucksters are still around, pushing the next multibillion-dollar miracles in diet capsules. Packed into tight ...

Wary consumers are beginning to shy away from diet preparations containing ephedra, with U.S. sales of some of the most popular brands falling 30% or more over the last year.

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 ...

The shame, says Hathcock, is that, with more than 60 percent of Americans now considered overweight or obese, people turn to diet pills when research continues to show that eating right and ...

A federal judge Thursday struck down the FDA ban on ephedra, the once-popular weight-loss aid that was yanked from the market after it was linked to dozens of deaths. IE 11 is not supported.

The Secret of Ephedra's Questionable Success Snigdha Prakash reports on the recipe behind the diet drug Metabolife's billion-dollar -- and possibly deadly -- success. All Things Considered Latest Show ...

She tried (insert over-the-counter diet pill here) and within a few months, she was back to a perfect size 2 and feeling better than ever.” These “success stories” do nothing but give people false ...