In a press conference on Friday, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and the FDA proposed that warning labels should appear on bottles of the popular herbal supplement Ephedra. This comes less than weeks after the heatstroke death of Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler, which a Florida medical examiner has linked to his use of ephedra. Larry talks with Dr. Sidney Wolfe, Director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
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