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Date Posted: 23:42:21 08/04/06 Fri
Author: Jay S. Cohen, M.D. (Medication Sense)
Subject: Dr. Cohen's Bio, Presentations, and Publications
In reply to: Jay S. Cohen, M.D. 's message, "NEW WARNINGS FOR CIPRO, LEVAQUIN, AND OTHER QUINOLONE ANTIBIOTICS." on 21:52:50 08/04/06 Fri

Dr. Cohen's Bio, Presentations, and Publications


BIO

Jay S. Cohen, M.D. is a nationally recognized expert on medications and side effects. As an Adjunct (voluntary) Associate Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, Dr. Cohen's work has been featured in newspapers and magazines across America including the New York Times, Newsweek, the Washington Post, Consumer Reports, Wall Street Journal, Modern Majority, Women's Day, Bottom Line Health, and Life Extension Magazine. Dr. Cohen has appeared on more than 100 radio programs including National Public Radio, the People's Pharmacy, and the Gary Null show.

Dr. Cohen accepts no funding from the drug industry or government. Dr. Cohen is a strong advocate for patients' rights of informed consent and an expert on improving medication safety. He is a long-time critic of the drug industry's marketing of stronger and stronger drugs with cookbook, often one-size-fits-all dosing that does not allow adjustments based on patients' size, age, states of health, or use of concomitant medications. Dr. Cohen's previous book, Over Dose: The Case Against The Drug Companies (Tarcher/Putnam 2001) challenged these trends and the continuing high incidence of serious medication side effects: more than 100,000 deaths and 1,000,000 hospitalizations each year. Over Dose received unanimously excellent reviews including one from the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Dr. Cohen has presented his independent research on making medications safer as a featured speaker at major medical conferences and, in November 2002, as keynote speaker at a conference at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He has publicly debated the FDA's top medication expert on four occasions. In his books and medical journal articles, Dr. Cohen warned about problems with antidepressants such as Prozac and Paxil, anti-inflammatory drugs such as Celebrex and Bextra, and hormones such as Premarin and Prempro. Subsequently, each of these drugs became a national concern when new toxicities were revealed.

In May 2002, Dr. Cohen created the MedicationSense.com website and free electronic newsletter for the purpose of providing information to individuals and health care professionals about better, safer methods with medications. Dr. Cohen is not anti-medication. Medications help millions of people, but many thousands are harmed unnecessarily. Side effects also force millions of people from treatment they need. Dr. Cohen's goal is to improve the system in order to maximize the benefits while minimizing the risks of medication treatment. Dr. Cohen's solutions would end many of these problems.

Dr. Cohen is a strong advocate of patients' rights of informed consent when receiving medications. This right includes a right to receive information about all side effects and about the lowest, safest, effective doses of medications -- information that most patients and many doctors do not receive today. Dr. Cohen believes that good, complete information is necessary for people to receive good medical care. To this end, Dr. Cohen designed his new book, What You Must Know About Statin Drugs and Their Natural Alternatives (Square One Publishers, NY), to provide readers with all of the information they need to lower cholesterol and maintain heart health. Today, many patients receive cholesterol-lowering statin drugs that are super-strong, too strong for their needs. Side effects occur, and treatment is interrupted. There are better ways of getting proper -- and safer -- treatment with statins or with proven-effective natural supplements. Providing information to help patients and to improve the healthcare system are the goals of Dr. Cohen's work.

RECENT MAJOR PRESENTATIONS

November 2002: U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Keynote Speaker, Annual Science Day, Clinical Pharmacology Division, Rockville, MD. "Preventing Medication Side Effects: A Clinical Perspective."

September 29, 2004: Grand Rounds, Scripps Clinic and Medical Center, La Jolla, CA. "Dose Optimization and Preventing Adverse Events: a Perspective on Improving Drug Safety and Keeping Patients in Treatment."

March 26, 2004: American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Annual Conference, Miami. Featured debate on medication safety between Dr. Cohen and Dr. Robert Temple, the top drug expert at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This was the fourth Cohen-Temple debate.

October 2001: National Public Radio, "Morning Edition with Bob Edwards." Dr. Cohen on the "Serious, Unrecognized Side Effects of Cipro and Safer Treatments for Anthrax Exposure."

February 3, 2005: Joint Meeting of Biomedical Librarian Groups of California, Arizona, and Nevada, Long Beach, CA. "Better Information, Safer Medications."

November 2003: American College for the Advancement of Medicine (ACAM), America's largest organization of alternative physicians. Annual Conference, Las Vegas. "Medication Safety, Natural Alternatives, and the Importance of Creating a Truly Integrative Medical System."

June 2003: Drug Information Association, Annual Conference, San Antonio. This was the third debate between Dr. Cohen and the FDA's Dr. Robert Temple on medication safety.

May 2003: Kaiser Foundation, Positive Choice Wellness Center, San Diego. "Magnesium in the Prevention and Treatment of Hypertension, Migraines, and Other Vascular Disorders."

March 2003: "Direct-To-Consumer" Pharmaceutical Industry Conference, Boston. "Improved Medication Safety: Benefits for Patients, Doctors, Healthcare -- and the Pharmaceutical Industry."

February 2003: Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego. "Medications, Side Effects, and Patients' Right of Informed Consent."

May 2002: American College for the Advancement of Medicine (ACAM), Fort Lauderdale.

September 2002: Congress of California Seniors, San Diego. Featured speakers included Dr. Cohen, the Governor of California, and the Attorney General.

DR. COHEN'S PUBLICATIONS

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

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

Cohen, JS. 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.

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

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

Cohen, JS, & Miller, E. 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.

MEDICAL JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Cohen, JS. Antidepressants: An avoidable and solvable controversy. Annals of Pharmacotherapy 2004;38:1743.
Cohen, JS. Magnesium and erythromelalgia: a clinically important vasoactive mineral and a rare disorder. Italian Journal of Pediatrics 2004;30:69-72.

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

Cohen, JS. 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.

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

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

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

Cohen, JS. 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, which in turn prompted the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to change their guidelines.

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

Cohen, JS. Clinical and Ethical Concerns about Switching Patient Treatment to "Therapeutically Interchangeable" Medications. Archives of Internal Medicine, Sept. 24, 2001;161:2153-54. HMOs frequently switch patients from one drug to another, but is it medically ethical? What about patients' right for informed consent?

Cohen, JS. 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.

Cohen, JS. 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.

Cohen, JS. Comparison of FDA Reports of Patient Deaths Associated with Sildenafil (Viagra) and with Injectable Alprostadil (Caverject). Annals of Pharmacotherapy, March 2001;35:285-88. Based on FDA reports, deaths associated with Viagra occur at much greater frequency than associated with Caverject.

Cohen, JS. 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.

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

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

Cohen, JS. Adverse Drug Reactions: Effective Low-Dose Therapies for Older Patients. Geriatrics, Feb. 2000; 55(2):54-64. Prescribing drugs at the same dosage for old and young people goes against basic medical principles and places older patients at-risk.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cohen, JS. 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.

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

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

Cohen, JS. 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.

Copyright 2005, Jay S. Cohen, M.D. All rights reserved. Readers have permission to copy and disseminate all or part of these articles if it is clearly identified as the work of: Jay S. Cohen, M.D., the MedicationSense E-Newsletter, www.MedicationSense.com. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.

If you find this article informative, please tell your friends, family members, colleagues, and doctors about www.MedicationSense.com and the free MedicationSense E-Newsletter.

NOTE TO READERS: The purpose of this E-Letter is solely informational and educational. The information herein should not be considered to be a substitute for the direct medical advice of your doctor, nor is it meant to encourage the diagnosis or treatment of any illness, disease, or other medical problem by laypersons. If you are under a physician's care for any condition, he or she can advise you whether the information in this E-Letter is suitable for you. Readers should not make any changes in drugs, doses, or any other aspects of their medical treatment unless specifically directed to do so by their own doctors.


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