Ephedrine Can Cause Sudden Death
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The dietary supplement ephedrine, marketed as a performance enhancer and diet aid until its ban in the United States this year, can cause sudden heart attack and may explain
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A new study has found that Aleve, a popular over-the-counter painkiller made by Bayer, could increase heart problems.
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Svetlana Kuznetsova tested positive for the banned stimulant ephedrine during an offseason charity event, a Belgian sports minister said Monday, but WTA Tour CEO Larry Scott doubts the U.S. Open champion will be penalized.
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NEW YORK  - A problem with the nerves that  control internal body functions, known as diabetic autonomic  neuropathy, was always considered the main risk factor for  sudden cardiac death in diabetics, but new research suggests  that heart and kidney disease play bigger roles.
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The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that accumulating evidence suggests a Bayer AG drug used to prevent excessive bleeding during heart bypass surgery increases the risk of death when compared with other drugs.
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Old Dirty Bastard&#39;s death outside a New York studio was ruled an accidental overdose by a medical examiner. The New York City medical examiner&#39;s office said ODB died fromt he effects of combining cocaine wiht Tramadol, a prescription painkiller.
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LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles sports nutrition store has been ordered to pay more than four million dollars to a man who purchased a diet supplement containing ephedra and then suffered a debilitating stroke.
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LOS ANGELES - Toxicology and other tests determined that funk singer Rick James died last month from a heart attack due to an enlarged heart, with numerous drugs including methamphetamine and cocaine contributing factors, the county coroner announced Thursday.    The death was declared an accident, said coroner's spokesman David Campbell, who emphasized that none of the drugs were found to be at life-threatening levels...
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Drugs prescribed to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder will include guides to alert patients and parents of the risks of mental and heart problems, including sudden death.
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Researchers believe heart devices could prevent some unexpected epilepsy deaths. One man describes how he lost his daughter and grandson to epilepsy.
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The popular anti-wrinkle drug Botox and a competitor have been linked to dangerous botulism symptoms in some users, cases so bad that a few children given the drugs for muscle spasms have died, the government warned Friday
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NEW YORK  - People have reported numerous  incidents of serious psychiatric problems -- including  hallucinations, mania and severe depression -- that may have  resulted from taking ephedra, new study findings report.
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The risk of sudden cardiac death faced by people with heart failure is offset more with an implantable defibrillator than with drug treatment, according to a new study.
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People taking nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) who suddenly stop face an almost 50 percent increased risk for having a heart attack during the first few weeks
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Peace came to Michael Shackelford last year inside a psychiatric ward. He was 16 and his mother had just discovered his relationship with another young man. Feeling alone and frightened, and unable to imagine his future as a gay teenager in rural Oklahoma, Michael bought 10 packets of ephedrine-laced powder from the mini-mart and swallowed them all, which is how he landed at Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital, his belt and shoelaces confiscated.
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The Featured Homepage Discussion today on WebmasterWorld is about Google notifying advertisers that it will no longer run ads for Ephedra or Ephedrine products. Google sent me an e-mail today addressing me as an AdWords Advertiser, though they sent it to the e-mail account that I use for managing AdSense, for whatever that&#8217;s worth. The note informed [...]
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Doctors have known for years that the antibiotic erythromycin can, in rare cases, spark an abnormal and sometimes fatal heartbeat. But combining it with several common drugs may dramatically increase that risk, researchers warned on Wednesday.