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Tuesday, February 04, 2003Researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center studied information phoned in to poison control centers in 2001 and found although ephedra accounted for less than 1 percent of all herbal supplement sales in the United States that year, it was responsible for 62 percent of all herb-related side effects reported. "We were sure ephedra would have a couple of times more calls -- more reports than other herbs -- but it was more than 100 times more calls," lead study author Dr. Stephen Bent, a staff physician at the VA center and a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, told United Press International. Bent said this is one of the first studies of its kind to examine herbs' effects by looking at poison control center data. posted by Sydney on 2/04/2003 07:47:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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