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Article: When herbal medicine turns nasty. (Editorials).
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- May 1, 2003
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The recent death of another athlete, this time a baseball player, from adverse effects of excess ephedra has created a media frenzy to ban ephedra. Feeling the heat, the FDA is caught between its intended obligation to regulate medicine and its legislated obligation to keep its hands off herbal supplements. Hence the FDA's frenetic but restricted activities promises to label ephedra as a supplement fraught with dangerous side effects but not a sufficient danger to the public to remove it from the marketplace. Once again the media attention has turned to questioning baseball's failure to ban "performance" drugs and chemicals by major league players. (In the strange world ...
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