News tagged with 'Dietary Supplements'

Oprah and Dr. Oz have filed more than 40 complaints against marketers of the acai berry to stop them from using the famous duo for promotional purposes. They say there is no science that supports the claim the berry promotes weight loss.

The FDA is expanding its warning about tainted weight loss products that contain undeclared, active pharmaceutical ingredients. In other words, the ingredients are not mentioned on the label and pose serious health risks including, heart attack, stroke and seizures.

The FDA is issuing a warning about diet pills, especially those with "natural"  or "herbal" ingredients. Many contain potentially dangerous ingredients that are not FDA approved and slipped in under, "supplements" which are not regulated.

Airborne Health Inc. did not admit any wrongdoing, but they have agreed to pay $7 million to settle investigations by 32 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia over past marketing and labeling of its dietary supplement products.

In surprising results out of University of Oxford, researchers found elderly, at the low end of normal in vitamin B12, showed the greatest amount of brain shrinkage over a five year period. Meats, salmon and mollusks contain the most B12. Estimates are nearly half of us are deficient.

St. John's Wort is not effective in treating children with ADHD, Bastyr University researchers find. What's unusual about this published study is that it comes from a leading institution in alternative and complimentary natural medicine.

FDA Ordering Safety of Vitamins, Supplements Updated June 2007- The Food and Drug Administration issued guidelines for manufacturers of herbal supplements , vitamins, and other nutritional aids. From now on, products will need to undergo additional testing in order to ensure that they are not cont

The Federal Trade Commission announced three enforcement actions against direct marketers of weight-loss products containing ephedra. The two settlements and one complaint, filed in U.S. district court, target deceptive efficacy, safety, and "no side effects" claims for weight loss supplements containing ephedra (also

Thousands of consumer complaints made about the ephedra-containing dietary supplement Metabolife do not contain enough information to prove the stimulant causes heart attacks and strokes, health officials revealed Wednesday. The General Accounting Office, a special investigative branch of Congress, studied the 16,000

One of the nation's leading consumer advocacy groups called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week to ban the sale of dietary supplements containing the herbal stimulant ephedra. In the latest report, Washington, DC-based Public Citizen, which originally asked the FDA to ban ephedra in September 2001

Another healthcare organization has joined the growing number of public interest groups calling for the immediate ban of dietary supplements containing the herbal stimulant ephedra. In a statement submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Thursday, the American Heart Association urged the federal government

NASCAR officials are discussing the possibility of banning the controversial herbal stimulant ephedra in the wake of major league baseball player Steve Bechler's death. According to NASCAR sources, up to 80 percent of crewmembers and a handful of drivers have used ephedra at some point to fight fatigue and fat during

Editors with the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) call on the Bush Administration to implement regulations regarding the sale of all dietary supplements in an editorial to be published later this month. According to the journal editors, the recent controversy surrounding the stimulant ephedra is pr

A California state senator initiated a bill Wednesday that will prohibit the sale of supplements containing the controversial herbal stimulant ephedra. Senator Jackie Speier introduced the law stating that the ban of ephedra was critical to protecting the health of California's 34 million residents. If approved, Cali

In an unprecedented decision involving the controversial stimulant ephedra, Suffolk County Wednesday banned the sale of all dietary supplements containing the substance. Joined by several residents with family members who had died while taking ephedra products, County Executive Robert Gaffney signed the bill into la