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Beware of these “advanced” and potentially very dangerous medical devices

February 20, 2012 Last week I told you how General Electric promoted two radiological devices that were approved by the FDA over objections of nine experts in the field. And now that those official approvals are out in the world, it will be nearly impossible to get them back in the bottle... Read More >

Categories: advanced medical device biopsies breast colon cancer colon cancer screenings colonoscopy compression computer-assisted machines CT Scans digital device FDA freedom General Electric mammogram alternatives mammogram device money polyps profits radiation virtual colonoscopy women

Massage after exercising soothes and heals muscle tissue

February 16, 2012 A massage makes you feel great because it releases toxins. Or that was once the theory, anyway. And it was a feasible idea, but researchers no longer believe that toxin-release comes into play... Read More >

Categories: cell growth energy exhausted inflammation leg massage massage muscle pain muscle tissue toxins

One woman’s fight against the debilitating side effects of Gardasil

February 15, 2012 Yesterday I told you how thousands of women in Thailand are avoiding cervical cancer with a simple, easy, and inexpensive test. Today we'll move 3,000 miles Southeast of Thailand, to Melbourne, Australia, where a young woman lost two years of her life after getting the Gardasil vaccine in hopes of... Read More >

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What goes on inside drug-making plants? You might not want to know

February 13, 2012 Whenever some medical mainstreamer gets a bug up his stethoscope about dietary supplements, we hear the same lame arguments...And finally: The FDA doesn't oversee supplement manufacturing facilities, but drugs are made with strict quality and safety controls. Turns out this last one may be the biggest joke of all... Read More >

Categories: birth control pills Bufferin dietary supplements drugs Excedrin Gas-X GlaxoSmithKline gold standard science Johnson & Johnson low-dose pills manufacturing facilities NoDoz Novartis Percocet Pfizer pharmaceutical plant quality and safety controls regulated safety safety track record supplements

Self-medication for chronic neck pain is the first step down an unproductive, rocky road

February 9, 2012 If you've got a pain in the neck, you're not alone. Nearly three in every four adults will experience neck pain at some point. And now I'm going to make up a statistic: More than half of those with neck pain will attempt to medicate themselves with over-the-counter painkillers. That... Read More >

Categories: chiropractic sessions ibuprofen neck exercises neck pain OTC drugs Pain pain relief painkillers prescription drugs self-diagnosed self-medicated

The fuse is burning dangerously short on one of our most deadly public health issues

January 24, 2012 Many years ago, meat producers realized that their healthy animals gained weight when antibiotics were put in their feed. Since then, that one simple detail has added up to vast additional profits for food producers and drug companies. Good for profits. Bad for people... Read More >

Categories: American Grassfed Certified Animal Welfare Approved and Certified Humane antibiotics drug companies FDA food industry livestock meat MRSA public health public safety superbug strains USDA Certified Organic

Eliminate the agonizing pain of kidney stones in just three days… and keep it from ever coming back

January 20, 2012 Have you suffered the most excruciating pain known to man? If you have, you know that I’m talking about kidney stones, and that you never want to live through that again. You don’t have to endure that pain ever again. Even if you’ve suffered the agony of kidney stones in... Read More >

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Newsletter Issue: February 2012

Do not fall for this very common, very dangerous medical myth

January 11, 2012 "Higher daily dose of aspirin could play key role in preventing heart attacks for those with diabetes." That's a headline from a University of Alberta (UA) press release. Now here's a headline that appeared in MyHealthNewsDaily the very same day: "Common Painkillers May Increase Risk of Irregular Heart Rhythm." Unfortunately,... Read More >

Categories: aspirin atrial fibrillation bleeding risk cardiovascular events common painkillers Diabetes heart attacks heart health irregular heart rhythm non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) stomach bleeding stroke

How does a star NFL quarterback with a bad ankle kill the pain? A bit recklessly

January 10, 2012 Roethlisberger: "They would never put me out there and endanger me or anybody on this team. There was no injection. There was two Tylenols and two Advil." Yikes! Little does Ben know how much he may have endangered himself with that OTC painkiller cocktail. And if he kept up a... Read More >

Categories: Advil liver OTC painkiller pain-killing injections Tylenols

Take the 3-question quiz that could save your life

January 4, 2012 I consider myself a good label-reader, and I'll bet you've become pretty good at reading them too. As we've discovered over the past few years, you really have to be diligent about scrutinizing food and drug labels -- sometimes going so far as to decode certain phrases that seem purposely... Read More >

Categories: acute liver failure APAP food and drug labels liver damage OTC drug labels Panadol para-acetylaminophenol Tylenol

Why boycott Pfizer? For starters: illegal drug testing on children

December 29, 2011 this point, you may be suffering from outrage fatigue. If so, I've got just the thing for that: a good old-fashioned boycott... Read More >

Categories: Advil Anbesol oral pain reliever Centrum ChapStick Dristan FiberCon non-drug products over the counter drugs Pfizer Preparation H prescription drugs Robitussin ThermaCare heat wraps

Heartbreaking, but true — some cancer patients are exploited in the worst possible way

December 28, 2011 I want to think that many oncologists are simply offering treatments they know are ineffective in order to give some hope and to make their work just a little bit less heartbreaking. But sadly, that's probably not the primary reason why desperate patients are being subjected to needless -- and... Read More >

Categories: Avastin cancer drugs cancer patients chemo chemotherapy metastatic colon cancer oncologists
Allan Spreen, M.D.
Dr. Allan Spreen, Chief Medical Advisor

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