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Aspirin is not as safe as doctors and advertisers would have you believe

May 22, 2008 Research concluded that men who take aspirin on a regular basis reduce the risk of a first heart attack. And the medical mainstream never looked back - low dose aspirin became one of the most commonly recommended drugs for heart health. Just one little problem: Aspirin prompts internal bleeding... Read More >

Categories: acetaminophen advertisers aspirin brain doctors gastrointestinal tract heart attack kidney painkillers stroke ulcers women

Drug companies want to treat smoking as a chronic disease

May 13, 2008 A "perspective" article published last month in the Annals of Internal Medicine seems to say that replacing your addiction with a lifetime commitment to smoking cessation drugs is your best chance of quitting... Read More >

Categories: antidepressant cessation Chantix drugs health insurance life-threatening lungs side effects smoking Wellbutrin Zyban

2008-01-Members Alert

January 1, 2008 January 2008 PDF And another thing High blood pressure just got some unwelcome company. Researchers at Harvard Medical School followed medical records of more than 38,000 women for ten years. When the women were divided into four groups according to their blood pressure (optimal, normal, high-normal, or hypertensive), researchers found... Read More >

Categories: blood pressure Cancer joint pain lower risk of heart failure Migraines nl-2008-01 restless leg syndrome wholegrain
Newsletter Issue: January 2008

Double-checking

December 19, 2007 An HSI member shares her anti-pharmaceutical stance after her husband's recent visit to the doctor... Read More >

Categories: cyst eyelid high blood pressure drug hypertension prescription

The High Cost of Quitting

December 18, 2007 Chantix blocks nicotine from binding to certain brain receptors. This action keeps nicotine from prompting the release of dopamine in the brain's pleasure centers - derailing the craving for another cigarette... Read More >

Categories: brain Chantix cigarettes depression diarrhea dopamine gingivitis mood nicotine smoking

Easy Breezy

November 26, 2007 A couple of shots and hypertension patients could overcome the health repercussions of neglecting their medication, or living in such complete denial of their condition that they refuse medication... Read More >

Categories: blood pressure denial hypertension negligence Nussberger renin vaccine

2007-11-Members Alert

November 1, 2007 November 2007 PDF And another thing A deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B1) may be common among diabetics, putting them at greater risk of stroke, kidney disease, and retinopathy (a condition that blocks the capillaries that provide blood to the retina). In a study from the UK, B1 concentration was found... Read More >

Categories: kidney pain magnetic mattress pad nl-2007-11 prostate cancer Sciatica sleepless nights thiamine
Newsletter Issue: November 2007

No-Logic Zone

April 10, 2007 A company in Japan sponsors a program that discourages young people from taking up cigarette smoking. The same company is partnering with the drug maker Roche to develop a drug designed to help prevent heart disease by raising HDL cholesterol... Read More >

Categories: Caduet cholesterol drug developments HDL high blood pressure Pfizer Roche torcetrapib
Allan Spreen, M.D.
Dr. Allan Spreen, Chief Medical Advisor

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