Liz Walters used to spend every spring struggling to catch her breath. Scarred by a childhood illness, her lungs worked overtime when the season's fresh pollens filled the air. Two different inhalers ...

Food and Drug Administration investigators are looking into the death of Baltimore Oriole pitcher Steve Bechler as they try to decide how dangerous the herbal stimulant ephedra might be and whether to ...

Herbal supplements such as ephedra and kava kava have increasingly been linked to serious illness and death. So why are they still being sold? Apoorva Mandavilli reports. Want a sharper mind, a ...

Al-Er-G was marketed as a supplement for the relief of allergies. MusclMasster, LLC announced a recall of all bottles of Al-Er-G capsules after they were found to contain the banned ingredient, ...

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.

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 — including that of Baltimore ...

Barbara J. Michal’s son died in 1997, one of dozens of people whose deaths are linked to the once-popular diet drug ephedra. So she praised a federal judge’s decision Monday to allow a nationwide ban ...

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 ...

Ephedra, an herb found in weight-loss and bodybuilding supplements, is unsafe even when taken in recommended doses and should be restricted, according to doctors who studied reports of bad reactions ...