Tamiflu, the widely prescribed antiviral drug for the flu, is surprisingly still on the market. I wrote to you about the problems with Tamiflu in a previous blog post (4.29.09—accessed here: http://112.196.20.91/drbrownstein/swine-flu-advice/). In that article, I told you to avoid taking Tamiflu since it doesn’t work very well and is...
An article in the New York Times (12.20.13) was titled, “Group Seeks Special Label for Food: ‘Natural’. The Grocery Manufacturers Association, which represents the nation’s largest food and beverage companies, has petitioned the FDA to allow the ‘natural’ label to be attached to food products that contain genetically modified...
I find it amusing when I am accused of practicing bad medicine because I don’t follow evidence-based medicine. When I am confronted with this argument, I always ask, “What evidenced-based medicine are you talking about? Is it the ghost-written articles? Or is it the industry-sponsored articles that provide the...
The FDA is still at it. On the homepage for FDA.gov, it states that the FDA is “Protecting and Promoting Your Health.” You have got to be kidding me. The FDA is too busy doing the bidding for the Big Pharma Cartel to worry about the health of the...
If you have high cholesterol levels you should take a statin right? That is the mantra promoted by conventional medicine. In fact, statins have become the most profitable class of medications sold by The Big Pharma Cartel. I have seen countless patients who have been told by their...
Folks, this is a big deal. This bill is being driven by Big Pharma. If it passes, there is no doubt that FDA will start to make bioidentical, natural hormones unavailable. This bill needs go away. DrB Your bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) is under...
I just watched the newest Oz movie, Oz the Great and Powerful. I enjoyed it, as I love everything about the Wizard of Oz. Watching that movie reminded me of what has happened in medicine. In the movie, Oz figures out how to use his ‘magic’ to defeat the...
It has always been amazing to me how doctors can prescribe a myriad of psychoactive drugs that have neither been properly studied nor proved to be effective. Antidepressant medications such as SSRI’s have never been shown to be very effective at treating patients from depression– in fact, they are...
To My Blog Subscribers, I need to bring to your attention what has been going on in Washington as it relates to your ability to have access to compounded medications. I have been prescribing compounded substances including bioidentical, natural hormones for nearly 20 years. I can assure you that...
On May 3, 2013, the FDA approved a Big Pharma Cartel founding member Merck drug Liptruzet. Liptruzet is a combination drug of Zetia and Lipitor. I wrote to you about the failure of Zetia in three separate blog posts. They can all be found by clicking here: http://112.196.20.91/drbrownstein/?s=zetia. Zetia...