Cold medicine, when taken at the prescribed dose, and NOT taken by indiividuals warned NOT to take it, ie those w/history of HPB, heart disease or those takening MAOI's don't kill MORE people than ephedra containing supplements. Just because this article says they do, doesn't mean it's true. The FDA could pull products containing psuedonephrine or phenylpropanolamine....& they do now require they be sold from BEHIND the counter, but, they didn't ban them because their saftey profile is proven....it took forever to ban ephedra...because it's a supplement, not a drug & we don't know how many people have died using ephedra containing supplements because it so often gets reported as a heart attack or stroke w/o mention of the decedant taking an ephedra product.....and ASPIRIN is the wonder drug of the 20th century!!! Aspirin taken as prescribed never killed anyone!!!