Metabolife International Inc. and its founder were indicted Thursday on federal charges of lying to the Food and Drug Administration about the dangers of a popular diet supplement containing ephedra, ...

WASHINGTON – A federal grand jury indicted Metabolife International (search) and its founder on charges of making false statements and obstructing a government probe into the safety of the weight-loss ...

San Diego-based Metabolife International Inc., once a leading seller of herbal weight-control products, filed for bankruptcy protection Friday, citing the burden of hundreds of lawsuits filed by users ...

Dangerous consumer products fall into three general categories. There are the things everyone knows are dangerous but get openly marketed anyway, like cigarettes and power mowers. There are the ...

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Metabolife International Inc. and its founder were indicted Thursday on federal charges of lying to the Food and Drug Administration about the dangers of a popular diet supplement ...

Nov. 11, 2003 (Orlando) — In a small study of healthy volunteers, a single Metabolife 356 tablet was associated with a 24 millisecond increase in QTc interval on electrocardiogram, an increase that ...

A jury awarded a Crosby woman $7.4 million today after deciding that the popular Metabolife diet supplement caused a stroke that left her with brain damage. The three women and nine men on the jury ...

So you're feeling a little thick around the middle and you've heard enough about abstinence and exercise. Wouldn't it be nice if you could pop a pill, stretch out in the BarcaLounger and incinerate ...

The jury is still out on Metabolife, but so is the word on the street. Take a pill and lose some weight. Not a new idea but potent in its appeal, no matter how elusive. So appealing, in fact, that the ...

The Metabolife Story: The Rape of Cinderella, by Michael J. Ellis. MJ Ellis Publishing. 414 pages. $24.95. Once upon a time, an herbal supplement called Metabolife 356 was the biggest weight-loss ...

In the wake of a criminal investigation by the Justice Department, Metabolife officials Thursday called for a ban on the sale of the firm’s own type of ephedra-based supplements to minors. The ...

SAN DIEGO (CN) – The founder of Metabolife International on Monday was sentenced to 6 months in prison and fined $20,000 for making false statements to the FDA. Michael Ellis told the FDA that ...