DR. COHEN’S PUBLICATIONS             

BOOKS

Natural Alternatives to Statin Drugs.  Square One Publishers, New York: 2007.

What You Need to Know about Statin Drugs and Their Natural Alternatives.  Square One Publishers, New York: January 2005.

The Magnesium Solution for High Blood Pressure.  How to Use Magnesium to Help Prevent & Relieve Hypertension Naturally.  Square One Publishers, New York: May 2004.

The Magnesium Solution for Migraine Headaches.  How to Use Magnesium to Help Prevent & Relieve Migraine and Cluster Headaches Naturally.  Square One Publishers, New York: June 2004.

Over Dose: The Case Against The Drug Companies.  Prescription Drugs, Side Effects, and Your Health.  Tarcher/Putnam, New York: October 2001.

Make Your Medicine Safe: How To Prevent Side Effects From The Drugs You Take.  New York: Avon Books, 1998, 604 pages.

The American Garden Guidebooks: A Guide to America's Finest Gardens for the General Traveller.  Evans and Company, Inc., New York.  Volume I, 1987; Volume II, 1988.  Written with Everitt Miller, America's Foremost Horticulturalist.

MEDICAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Statin therapy after stroke or transient ischemic attack.  New England Journal of Medicine 2006;355(22):2368.

Risks of troglitazone apparent before approval in USA.  Diabetologia 2006;49(6):1454-5.

How celecoxib could be safer; how valdecoxib might have been.  Annals of Pharmacotherapy, Sept. 2005;39:1542-1545.

Should rosuvastatin be withdrawn from the market [letter]?  Lancet, Oct. 2004;364(9445):1579.

Antidepressants: An avoidable and solvable controversy.  Annals of Pharmacotherapy 2004;38:1743.

Magnesium and erythromelalgia: a clinically important vasoactive mineral and a rare disorder.  Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2004;30:69-72.

Statins and low?]density lipoprotein cholesterol levels [letter].  American Journal of Medicine 2003;115:74?]75

Do Standard Doses of Frequently Prescribed Drugs Cause Preventable Adverse Effects in Women?  JAMWA (The Journal of the American Medical Women's Association), 2002;57:105-110.  The first in-depth study examining why women sustain more side effects than men, and why drugs withdrawn by the FDA harmed women the most. Analysis of problems in drug research and FDA review.

Why Aren't Lower, Effective, OTC Doses Available Earlier by Prescription?  Annals of Pharmacotherapy 2003;37(1):136-142.

Tablet Splitting: Imperfect Perhaps, but Better Than Excessive Dosing.  Journal of the American Pharmacy Association 2002;42(2):160-162.

High-Dose, Oral Magnesium in the Treatment of Chronic, Intractable Erythromelalgia.  Annals of Pharmacotherapy, Feb. 2002;36:255-60.

Peripheral Neuropathy with Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics.  Annals of Pharmacotherapy, Dec. 2001;35(12):1540-47.  This article was published during the anthrax scare of autumn 2001 and triggered a national debate about Cipro's safety.  In term, this prompted the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to change their guidelines.

Pharmaceutical manufacturer sponsorship and drug information [letter].  Archives of Internal Medicine, Nov. 26, 2001;161:2625-2626.

Clinical and Ethical Concerns about Switching Patient Treatment to "Therapeutically Interchangeable" Medications.  Archives of Internal Medicine, Sept. 24, 2001;161:2153-54.

Dose Discrepancies between the Physicians' Desk Reference and the Medical Literature, and Their Possible Role in the High Incidence of Dose-Related Adverse Drug Events.  Archives of Internal Medicine, April 9, 2001:161:957-64.

Adverse drug effects, compliance, and the initial doses of antihypertensive drugs recommended by the Joint National Community vs. the Physicians' Desk Reference.  Archives of Internal Medicine, March 26, 2001;161:880-85.

Comparison of FDA Reports of Patient Deaths Associated with Sildenafil (Viagra) and with Injectable Alprostadil (Caverject).  Annals of Pharmacotherapy, March 2001;35:285-88.

Is the Product Information on Sildenafil (Viagra) Adequate to Facilitate Optimal Therapeutics and to Minimize Adverse Events?  Annals of Pharmacotherapy, March 2001;35:337-42.

Erythromelalgia: New Theories and New Therapies.  Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, Nov. 2000; 43:841-7.

Should Patients Be Given a Low Test Dose of Sildenafil (Viagra) Initially?  Drug Safety, July 2000; 23:1-10.

Adverse Drug Reactions: Effective Low-Dose Therapies for Older Patients.  Geriatrics, Feb. 2000; 55(2):54-64.

Viagra and Nonnitrate Antihypertensive Medications (letter).  JAMA, Jan 12, 2000;283(2):201?]2.

Preventing Adverse Drug Reactions Before They Occur.  Expert Pharmacology Column.  Medscape (www.Medscape.com), Dec., 1999.

Ways To Minimize Adverse Drug Reactions: Individualized Doses and Common Sense Are Key.  Postgraduate Medicine, Sept. 1999; 106: 163-72.

The Physicians' Desk Reference. Problems and possible improvements.  Archives of Internal Medicine, 1996;156(13):1375?]80.

Dosage titration issues. (letter)  Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, January, 1996.

Provide fluoxetine (Prozac) information vital to clinicians.  Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Dec., 1995.

Is Alprazolam (Xanax) the Best Treatment for Panic Attacks?  Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, August, 1988.

CONSUMER PUBLICATIONS

The MedicationSense Website. Forty-one articles posted from 2003 to 2008.

Why You Should Be Concerned about High Blood Pressure Whether You Have It (Yet) or Not.  Life Extension Magazine, Sept. 2004;10(9):40-48.

Medication Side Effects: Why They Occur and How You Can Prevent Them.  Life Extension Magazine, March 2003;9(3):46-68.

Too Much of a Good Thing?  A Cholesterol Drug Is Pulled after 31 People Died -- What Happened?  Newsweek.MSNBC.com, Aug. 10, 2001:www.msnbc.com/news/612443.asp.

Statins -- Is the Danger in the Dose?  Optimal Wellness Center, Aug. 25, 2001:www.mercola.com/2001/aug/25/baycol.htm

The One-Size Dose Does Not Fit All: Look beyond the guidelines of drug manufacturers.  Newsweek, 12/6/99, page 92.

Multiple articles in Bottom Line Health and Bottom Line Personal newsletters.  Circulation: 2 million.

1989-1990: Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune.  "Gardens Of The West."  Monthly column, cover article of Sunday garden section with color photographs.

1987-1990: Columnist: Del Mar Surfcomber.  Articles on health issues.

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