NVE Pharmaceuticals today became the first diet pill company to sue the federal government for banning ephedra, the herbal supplement that has been linked to heart attacks and deaths. The lawsuit asks ...

HOUSTON -- Ephedra-free may not necessarily mean danger-free. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's announcement earlier this week that it will ban the sale of herbal weight-loss products containing ...

A month before a federal ban on ephedra takes effect, the phrase ephedra free is overtaking nutritional displays in Bowling Green. People come in and ask for (ephedra products) all the time and pretty ...

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 some researchers and ...

NEWARK, April 12 A federal judge here cleared the way on Monday for a ban on the sale or manufacture of ephedra to start immediately. The judge denied a request by two manufacturers of the dietary ...

(National) Jan. 15, 2004 - Peter Schlendorf died seven years ago while he was on spring break with his friends. His mother Karen Schlendorf remembers, "He was just a kid that a lot of people liked to ...