Health Alert 178 Care to guess the natural food that has the highest concentration of antioxidants? It’s the humble blueberry. They help your body fight off certain cancers and heart …
Who's Teaching Your Doctor?
Health Alert 180 My office recently received a fax that worries me. It was an offer for an easy way to earn the education credits I need to renew my …
What TV Ads Aren't Telling You about Crestor
Health Alert 189 A while back, I warned you about Crestor, the newest cholesterol-lowering drug advertised on TV. It has a deadly side effect called rhabdomyolysis (a terribly painful, degenerative …
The New Heart Cure
Health Alert 198 Heart disease kills 950,000 Americans every year. That number is so large it’s hard to grasp. Yet you may have no trouble relating to the aunt, grandfather, …
When Your Doctor Says “You Have High Cholesterol”
Health Alert 214 High cholesterol is becoming an epidemic in America. And what’s worse, the mainstream solution could be more dangerous than the problem itself. The cold hard truth about …
What's Really Killing You?
Health Alert 216 Dear Subscriber: You can hardly turn on the television or pick up a paper without seeing an advertisement for a yellow, purple, or blue pill. But if …
How Low Will They Go?
Health Alert 217 Dear Subscriber: Most doctors will tell you that the best way to lower cholesterol is to lower your LDL, or “bad” cholesterol. They suggest that you do …
Another One Bites The Dust
Health Alert 219 Dear Subscriber: After years of drug company reassurances that their new miracle arthritis drug, Vioxx, was safer than other anti-inflammatories, pharmacies have yanked it off their shelves. …
How's Your Heart?
Health Alert 220 Dear Subscriber: Heart disease remains America’s biggest killer. Do you have a healthy heart? Or, is your ticker in danger of giving out? Your Health Alert today …
Dangerous Secret behind Cholesterol "Goals"
Health Alert 223 The National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) sounds like a good thing. They want your LDL cholesterol at 100 or lower – or they want you on drugs. …
Statins In The Water Supply?
Health Alert 227 Dear Subscriber: You’ve heard me talk about it before. You know the story about doctors and their new miracle cure – statin drugs. They think these drugs …
Drugs Meant to Protect Actually Increased Danger
Health Alert 233 Dear Subscriber: If you take medicine for a heart problem or high-blood pressure, you may be putting yourself at a risk even your doctor isn’t aware of. …
What Bill Clinton's Doctors Missed
Health Alert 236 Dear Subscriber: For weeks the media called former President Bill Clinton’s emergency heart surgery a “wake up call for baby boomers.” They did an excellent job of …
Will Drug Companies & The FDA Learn from Vioxx? It Doesn't Look Like It…
Health Alert 237 Dear Subscriber: When Merck voluntarily recalled Vioxx on September 30th, 5 years and 105 million prescriptions after its debut, users were stunned. How could a drug billed …
The Next FDA Earthquake
Health Alert 238 Dear Subscriber: Looks like the Vioxx disaster was only the first tremor in a major quake rumbling through the FDA. Now five more drugs are under fire …
Everything about Cholesterol – Wrong?
Health Alert 239 Dear Subscriber: Last time you read about five drugs that are coming under fire because of safety issues. One of those five is a statin drug called …
Treat Inflammation, Not Cholesterol, For A Healthy Heart
Health Alert 240 Dear Subscriber: Every year, conventional doctors write more than 50 million prescriptions for cholesterol-lowering medications. That number will triple in the next few years in response to …
The Miracle Heart Energizer
Health Alert 242 Dear Subscriber: A woman with high blood pressure came to see me. She was taking two blood pressure medications and a statin drug. She complained of constant …