The morning after federal authorities announced their intention to ban ephedra, the herbal derivative popular among some dieters and athletes, Mo Brandon drove straight to his local nutrition store.

Bottles of the popular herb ephedra should bear warning labels that the pills can cause heart attacks, strokes or even kill, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday. The FDA proposed the warning ...

Many workout and diet supplements aren't strictly regulated, so often you don't know exactly what is inside the products.

For years, Metabolife denied it had received any reports of health problems linked to its popular weight-loss aid, Metabolife 356. But recently, under pressure from the government, the herbal ...

"I can report to you that we're about to ban dietary supplements containing ephedra," Thompson said during the press conference. "For too long, dietary supplements containing ephedra and alkaloids … ...

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 ...

Even the Food and Drug Administration got involved by completing a study Feb. 28 and sending out warnings to sellers or manufacturers of the product that claim it enhances athletic ability. Clearly, ...

CBS News has a long-running investigation into Ephedra - the herbal supplement that millions of people take for weight loss and as an energy booster. Critics say it causes deaths, heart attacks and ...

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. The ...

A year ago the Food and Drug Administration banned dietary supplements containing the herbal stimulant ephedra. In a decision that was recently overturned by a federal judge in Utah, the FDA concluded ...

2002-08-17 04:00:00 PDT Sacramento-- A day after the federal government opened a criminal probe into a California company that makes the diet drug ephedra, Gov. Gray Davis reversed his position and ...