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Gout-med risk findings even worse than anticipated

March 20, 2018 Having gout is like walking a tightrope... over the Grand Canyon! It’s one of the most excruciating pains you can have, but the drugs dispensed to treat it are some of the most dangerous ones you can take. What a choice! Now, the latest warning to hit the fan is... Read More >

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The antibiotic you never, ever want to take

March 5, 2018 While the FDA is hard at work trying to stomp out the herb kratom (a safe, natural way to relieve pain that I told you about last week), it’s sitting on its hands where a truly dangerous drug, an antibiotic called clarithromycin, is concerned. Now, along with a lengthy list... Read More >

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How to trade a stuffy nose for a stroke

February 27, 2018 For a large class of seemingly unrelated Rx and OTC meds, this should be the final nail in the coffin. First, we heard that they can cause brain shrinkage (yes, brain shrinkage!), leading to dementia and Alzheimer’s. Then, a study early last year found that when seniors take these meds,... Read More >

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This best-selling diarrhea drug could kill you

February 6, 2018 We’ve all been hit with it at one time or another — Montezuma’s Revenge! It can happen on an adventure to a faraway locale or right in your own home. And I bet you have the go-to treatment for that in your medicine cabinet right now: the old standby loperamide,... Read More >

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Dangerous opioids routinely given to IBD sufferers

February 5, 2018 If you’ve never had to deal with the pain and severe diarrhea of ulcerative colitis — or any other inflammatory bowel disease — consider yourself lucky. The nature of these diseases is probably why Big Pharma and the FDA think it’s okay to put some of the most incredibly dangerous... Read More >

Categories: Crohn’s disease Dr. Glenn Rothfeld IBD inflammatory bowel disease opioids risk of opioids for IBD ulcerative colitis

Could this be a prescription for a shorter life?

January 1, 2018 It should be a given that the life expectancy in America would be on the rise, not the other way around. But some just-out statistics are telling us for the second year in a row that those numbers are dropping, something which hasn’t happened in the U.S. for over half... Read More >

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The eAlert 2017 Hall of Shame

December 28, 2017 It looks like 2017 is practically in the rear-view mirror! How in the world did that happen so fast? During the past 12 months, we’ve told you about many exciting natural therapies and remedies that have been shown — even proven — to be able to fight cancer, Alzheimer’s, arthritis,... Read More >

Categories: bird flu Chinese chicken drugs that trigger glaucoma FDA Gadolinium contrast dyes GBCAs GlaxoSmithKline shingles Shingrix Year in review

As TV drug ads get worse, the FDA wants your help!

December 21, 2017 It looks like the feds aren’t even pretending to police all of those “direct-to-consumer” prescription-drug ads anymore. While the constant drumbeat of drug commercials might just seem to be a major annoyance when you’re trying to watch TV, those ads are actually a very big problem to the FDA. Amazingly,... Read More >

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New Alzheimer’s meds could be the riskiest of all

December 20, 2017 There’s a new class of drugs speeding along the FDA’s fast track... straight to your doctor’s office. They’re called BACE inhibitors, and Big Pharma will be sparing no expense in selling them to you as a way to treat — and even prevent — Alzheimer’s disease. But these meds have... Read More >

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Digestive problems? These meds may be the cause

December 13, 2017 If you happen to land on the webpage for the top-selling blood pressure meds in the U.S. (all made by Japanese drugmaker Daiichi Sankyo), you’ll see a big photo of a happy man surfing at a beautiful tropical locale splashed across the top. But that could be a rather cruel... Read More >

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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

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 >

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Newsletter Issue: December 2017
Allan Spreen, M.D.
Dr. Allan Spreen, Chief Medical Advisor

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