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Laugh lines

January 22, 2003 The New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque, and the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association recently teamed up earlier this month to deliver a not so prestigious study that amounts to little more than an advertising sales pitch... Read More >

Categories: depression impotency online drug buying sexual dysfunction

The P word

January 6, 2003 It sounds absurd, almost like a joke - like Viagra for kids, or HRT for kids. But I wasn't laughing last Friday when I turned on the evening news to hear that the FDA had approved Prozac for the treatment of depression and obsessive compulsive disorder in children aged 7... Read More >

Categories: children natural alternatives Prozac

Beat anxiety without Prozac: Panelist reveals five drug-free stress busters

January 1, 2003 Beat anxiety without Prozac: Panelist reveals five drug-free stress busters Just about this time last year, you couldn’t turn around without hearing or reading something about kava. And, unfortunately, the news was not good. At the end of 2001, German and Swiss health authorities announced they held kava consumption responsible... Read More >

Categories: anxiety diazepam jujube kava magnolia bark nl-2003-01 sleeplessness
Newsletter Issue: January 2003

How do you spell respect?

November 5, 2002 The story that you won't see on Headline News is that you can beat a headache without putting your liver in harm's way... Read More >

Categories: acetaminophen alternatives liver damage milk thistle overdose toxic

Dodge the sugar bullet–and double your chances of beating this leading killer

November 1, 2002 The sad fact is that simply following a "normal" American diet can put us at risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Also known as adult-onset diabetes, this type of the disease accounts for up to 95 percent of all cases and is the kind ballooning to epidemic proportions... Read More >

Categories: blood sugar Diabetes fenugreek Glucotor hypertension relief konjac mannan nl-2002-11
Newsletter Issue: November 2002

Raking in the dough

October 15, 2002 HSI Panelist, Allan Spreen, M.D., recently sent me the following commentary on an article he found which sheds light on profit margins that would make even Donald Trump blush... Read More >

Categories: markup pharmaceutical companies pricing profit margins

Alternative medicine in Australia

October 9, 2002 Researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia are very concerned about the results of what a U of A press release calls a major new study... Read More >

Categories: alternative medicine australia prescription drugs research

Warning on vitamin use

September 16, 2002 Britons are being warned about the use of supplementary vitamins in what can only be described as a propaganda campaign designed to create a negative mindset toward vitamin, mineral and herbal supplements... Read More >

Categories: access classification drugs FSA Great Britain prescription restrictions supplements UK vitamin use warning

Male menopause and testosterone replacement therapy

August 22, 2002 Unimed is out there, men, and they want to "raise your awareness" about male menopause. Their remedy: testosterone replacement therapy (TRT... Read More >

Categories: andropause male menopause marketing prostate cancer side effects testosterone replacement therapy

Reducing your homocysteine level

August 13, 2002 I'm still getting e-mails in response to the e-Alert I sent you last Thursday ("The Power of a Single Word" 8/8/02) about a study that shows how you can reduce your homocysteine level by increasing your intake of dietary folate... Read More >

Categories: B vitamins folate homocysteine lowering prescription

Pretty in pink

June 18, 2002 As you know, the poor drug companies spend many years and many millions (or billions) of dollars creating a new drug. Then as soon as they get a patent and it hits the market all these upstart generic drug companies come along, and like circling sharks they wait for the... Read More >

Categories: drug patents extended patents generic drugs price hikes reformulated drugs

The whistle blower

June 6, 2002 Dateline: Boston 1997. Dr. David P. Franklin contacts a lawyer to file suit against his employer, the pharmaceutical company, Warner-Lambert. Dr. Franklin admits, "I was terrified." Executives at Warner-Lambert had threatened to make him a scapegoat if he went public with his concerns about certain company practices that Dr. Franklin... Read More >

Categories: drug companies greed lawsuit marketing Neurontin prescription sales
Allan Spreen, M.D.
Dr. Allan Spreen, Chief Medical Advisor

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