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 ...

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

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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 ...