Certain foods, nutrients, and supplements can suppress appetite. Here are some examples of natural appetite suppressants and ...

Ephedra-type alkaloids, a class of naturally occurring compounds derived from plants in the genus Ephedra, have long held interest in the pharmaceutical industry due to their stimulant and airway ...

Ephedra (also known as má huáng) is a stimulant that promotes weight loss by increasing thermogenesis and suppressing appetite. However, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the use of ...

A former Army service member who confessed to killing a Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1994 detailed the fatal stabbing to ...

The boom is the result of a discovery by drug traffickers that a plant commonly found growing wild in parts of Afghanistan, ephedra, can be used to create the key component of meth: ephedrine.

The West Thumb Geyser Basin is located along the western edge of Yellowstone Lake. There is a fantastic boardwalk trail ...

The rise of meth has been fuelled by a discovery that ephedra - a common, wild herb known locally as "oman" - can be used to make one of the drug's key ingredients: ephedrine. At a bazaar deep in ...

Ephedra. Also commonly referred to as ephedrine, this ingredient has a reputation for being straight-up dangerous, and rightfully so. In fact, in 2004, ephedra was banned by the FDA for use in ...

This is the second of a three-part series outlining the history of the Imperial Sand Dunes, the vegetation and wildlife that ...

Pitchman for weight-loss drugs and reverse-mortgages In 1999 and 2000, Garvey worked as a spokesman for a weight-loss supplement called Enforma, which contained ephedra, an amphetamine-like herb ...

The interactions of natural products with drugs are discussed. Interactions between natural products and drugs are based on the same pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles as drug-drug ...