they bought aegeline from a chinese drug company that made aegeline-- at least, the company claimed it was aegeline-- and within a few months, they began to observe patients with liver failure. mostly in hawaii, but not entirely. >> narrator: cynthia novida is a chief petty officer with the u.s. navy based in san diego. she turned to oxyelite pro to help pass fitness tests. >> it helped keep my weight down, it helped, you know, just give me that extra push during a workout, and i was liking it and i would take it. >> narrator: but only halfway through the first bottle, cynthia's eyes started turning yellow. her doctor had bad news. >> that's when he told me that, "your liver is shot, pretty much. you'll possibly need a liver transplant." >> narrator: she would get a transplant. the fda has linked oxyelite to more than 70 cases of liver dam. the company declined to be inted and denies any responsibility. doctors in hawaii still remember how slow the fda was to act. they say they followed all the directions on the agency's medwatch website. they'd phoned several times. but it wasn't unti