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Simple test may help cut heart risk during surgery

December 13, 2017 It’s the injury to your heart that you — and your doctor — may never have seen coming. While your surgeon may downplay the danger, there’s no doubt that surgery — of any kind — is risky. And while I’m not trying to unnecessarily scare you if you need to... Read More >

Categories: blood levels of troponin perioperative myocardial injury PMI Surgical heart damage troponin levels and heart damage

Is this humble plant the answer to the opioid epidemic?

December 11, 2017 If the largest commercial airplane out there was filled to capacity and crashed, it would certainly be a tragic loss of life. Now, take that doomed jet and fill it up over 183,000 times, and you’d have around the same number of people who have died because of prescription opioid... Read More >

Categories: big pharma buprenorphine Dr. Scott Gottlieb FDA FDA kratom advisory Kratom Opioid drugs Sublocade

This hip arthritis shot could be ‘bad to the bone’

December 11, 2017 If you suffer from the pain and stiffness of hip arthritis, a steroid shot may seem like a miracle. After all, anything that can give you complete relief from that pain (even if just for a short time) is a godsend. But that reprieve may come at a very big... Read More >

Categories: alternative treatments for hip arthritis hip arthritis steroid shot for hip pain steroids steroids and bone damage

FDA issues long-overdue alert on popular gout med

December 5, 2017 It’s an urgent warning that took the FDA years to issue... and it’s not done yet! From the start — practically a decade ago during clinical trials — it was quite obvious that the gout med Uloric was linked to heart attacks, strokes, and other “heart-related” deaths. But the FDA... Read More >

Categories: Allopurinol Aloprim FDA febuxostat gout heart danger Uloric how to lower uric acid naturally Uloric Zyloprim

Don’t let your doctor start you up on this risky painkiller

December 4, 2017 It’s the incredibly risky drug given out like candy canes to people suffering from back and shoulder pain, injuries, and even toothaches. Your doctor may tell you it’s safe or even non-addictive. But for the untold number of patients who have been unable to quit the synthetic opioid tramadol without... Read More >

Categories: addictive pain meds Drug Enforcement Agency how to get off of tramadol Opioid drugs Tramadol

Surgical ‘sham’ for relieving shoulder pain exposed

November 30, 2017 It’s one of those pains that comes and goes. You reach your arm up to get something out of the closet, and — bingo! — it hits. Or maybe you turn a certain way during the night, and your shoulder reminds you in no uncertain terms that it’s not a... Read More >

Categories: shoulder decompression surgery Shoulder pain subacrominal decompression what to do for shoulder pain

Sidestep the American opioid crisis with this ancient herbal pain eraser

November 29, 2017 by Michele Cagan You’re suffering unbearable pain that keeps you on the sidelines of your life... you can’t live like this... when nothing else has made it stop... it seems like that opioid painkiller prescription might be the only way. Stories about addiction are all over the news—but your doctor... Read More >

Categories: nl-2017-12
Newsletter Issue: December 2017

Rainforest miracle prevents… slows… even reverses Alzheimer’s disease and the damage that causes it

November 29, 2017 by Michele Cagan For more than a decade, Alzheimer’s patients and their families have been waiting in desperation for pharmaceutical companies to bring them a drug that truly works... but they’ve been waiting in vain. That hasn’t stopped Big Pharma from dangling hope in front of them with talks of... Read More >

Categories: nl-2017-12
Newsletter Issue: December 2017

Legionnaires’ disease now a bigger threat than ever

November 28, 2017 Not even The Happiest Place on Earth is safe from Legionnaires’ disease. Two Disneyland cooling towers were recently found to contain the bacteria responsible for the illness, and 11 park visitors have been diagnosed with this potentially deadly type of pneumonia. Legionnaires’ also struck four other people in the Anaheim,... Read More >

Categories: CDC Disneyland Legionnaires’ disease outbreak how to prevent Legionnaires’ disease Legionnaires’ disease

Newly approved med use poses kidney cancer ‘triple threat’

November 27, 2017 The FDA has just given the green light to another use for a risky chemo drug called Sutent, which is already used to treat cancers of the stomach, bowel, esophagus, and pancreas. But when an advisory committee met earlier this year to vote whether the use of Sutent could be... Read More >

Categories: cancer drugs cancer metastasis FDA new use for Sutent Pfizer risks of taking Sutent Sutent

Are you being poisoned by that favorite mug or glass?

November 22, 2017 It just wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without setting the table with those beautiful drinking goblets Aunt Mary gave you. But those glasses — along with any others that contain decorative designs, especially around the rim — may be slowly poisoning you and your family. A new study from researchers in the... Read More >

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Don’t be hoodwinked by the ‘new’ hypertension hype

November 21, 2017 Were you one of the over 30 million Americans who woke up one day last week to find that you’d suddenly developed high blood pressure... overnight? You didn’t even have to go see your doctor to get that news — you just turned on the TV! It was one of... Read More >

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