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Study recommends limits on use of herb ephedra
PH1LADELPHIA (AP) -Ephedra, an herb found in wcight-loss and bodybuilding supplcmcnis, is unsafe evcn when lakcn in recommended doses and should be reMricied, _ aecording to doctors who studied ■rcports-of-bad-reactions-to:the=:
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U.S. poison contro! cenccrs •reponed 1,178 ndverse tcactions to ephedra dictary lupplcments in 2001, sald the study, which was to be posted on the Annals of. ^Interna! Mcdicine’s Web sitc Tuesday and published in the ■ 'journał-ncKt jnonth——
cent of all advcrse reactions involving herbs, even though it is found in fewer than 1 percent of all hcrbal products sold.
“Ii co mes down to a rUk-beno fit rado,” said one of the repon’s authors. Dr. Stephen Bont. “The benefitvforephednrartMionjnill: ^encstabUśh^a:" —
Doctors śeek pili to postpbne heart valve replacement
WASHINGTON (AP) - Tern of thousands of Amerieans face the hcan valve replacement that Sen. Bob Graham underwent last . Nj^week, open-beart aurgery that la -~ hkeiy tb inerease dramadcaliy os the pop ula a on a ges.
—Burwhartf ^'slmplcpllltould slow iherusdngof the aortic heart
aedon that suggests even padedta with Iow cholesterol mlght berto-flL , . ł‘
“IPa very ejcddng," says.Dr. Ann Bolgfrtrf the Aa^ifcan Heart Assoclation, who if monltorin
valve and let padema postponę, rr.aybe even avold, the surgery tha: is toda/s ordy fix?
^Sdendsta have uncovered tan--taliiing eyldence-that-atatins,. those pills so popular to lower cholesterol, mlght do just that - and carly rescarch that suggests. nonhrólSgh ahy chólMterol effecf, valves are half as likely (o wwsen but by a cotnpletely different * if padenestakestadns.
Ephedra accounted for 54 per-
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