BACKGROUND Adulterated herbal weight loss products with containing undeclared synthetic drugs are common and responsible for many serious health damages. OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study was to determine five synthetic adulterants in eight common herbal weight loss supplements, which are currently sold in Iran markets, to verify their presence in supplements, without mentioning on the labe...

OBJECTIVES To review pharmaceutical analogue adulteration of non-prescription slimming products. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Tertiary referral centre for toxicology analysis, Hong Kong. PATIENTS All patients known to have been hospitalised after taking slimming products adulterated with pharmaceutical analogues from September 2004 to December 2006. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Age, rea...

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Although rare in young patients, acute ischaemic colitis can have devastating consequences. We detail the presentation and clinical course of a severe, progressive case of this disease related temporally to the recent ingestion of a sibutramine-containing herbal slimming agent procured on-line without prescription or medical indication in a young female that ultimately required emergency laparo...