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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The deaths this year of three football players who may have been taking nutritional supplements containing ephedra compounds has everyone from professional athletes to teenage dieters to weekend gym ...

Reason for posting: Health Canada warns that some over-the-counter supplements used to increase energy and promote weight loss and bodybuilding pose a serious risk to health.1 The warning applies to ...

The US government is to ban the popular dietary supplement ephedra because of mounting evidence of its toxicity. The ban has been welcomed by public-health advocates, but some critics have branded it ...

As spring swells and climbs through the canyons of the Colorado Plateau, green ephedra, also called Mormon tea, Ephedra viridis, produces arrangements at its branch nodes, and they produce tiny yellow ...

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 ...

In a year like this the boys are strutting their stuff when it comes to our native ephedra. It's because this is a dioecious species, meaning "two houses". Male flowers are held on some plants, female ...