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.

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 ...

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. Researchers at the University of California, ...

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 weaken a ...

Since the death of Steve Bechler, a 23-year-old pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles, the national debate of the safety of herbal supplement ephedra has resurfaced. Ephedra is banned for Olympic sports, ...

The Biggest Loser is on a losing streak. After being called out by scientists for dangerous human experimentation last month, the NBC reality weight-loss rubberneck-fest is now under fire for ...

On Feb. 16, pitcher Steve Bechler of the Baltimore Orioles collapsed while running sprints at the team’s spring-training camp in Florida. He died a few hours later. Subsequent investigation linked the ...

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 ...

New York Mets catcher Mike Piazza said he stopped taking an ephedra-based supplement following the death of Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler in spring training. Piazza said he didn't use the ...