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Publications:

» (4/17/03) Article by Sidney Wolfe in Science magazine: Ephedra Scientific Evidence Versus Money/Politics (HRG Publication #1664) » (10/8/02) Testimony Before Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Hearing on Dangers of Ephedra (HRG Publication #1642) » (6/17/02) Statement on HHS Failure to Ban Ephedra or Issue Adequate Warnings (HRG Publication #1624) » (1/17/02) Letter to American Medical Association urging their support of HRG petition to the FDA to ban dietary supplements containing ephedrine alkaloids (HRG Publication #1604) » (10/11/01) Statement before the National Academy of Sciences on the Framework for Evaluating the Safety of Dietary Supplements (HRG Publication #1594) » (9/6/01) Petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requesting the ban of production and sale of dietary supplements containing ephedrine alkaloids. (HRG Publication #1590) » (3/20/01) Testimony before the House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform Hearing on Dietary Supplements. (HRG Publication #1560) » (4/24/00) Comments on the Department of Health and Human Services' Inspector General’s Study of Adverse Event Reporting for Dietary Supplements. (HRG Publication #1568) » (3/30/00) Testimony before an FDA committee regarding the FDA's categorization of "morning sickness" and "leg edema" during pregnancy as conditions for which dietary supplement manufacturers might promote their products (HRG Publication #1517) » (3/2/00) Letter to the FDA concerning the United Kingdom's Committee on Safety of Medicine's recent warning about potentially serious drug interactions between St. John's Wort and a large number of other drugs. (HRG Publication #1513) » (2/3/00) Letter to the Food and Drug Administration regarding their final regulations on dietary supplements and their definition of adverse effects of pregnancy. (HRG Publication #1507)

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