'eHealthy News You Can Use' Mercola 5-1-02

How Vioxx and Celebrex Increase Your Risk of Heart Attack - Celebrex and Vioxx are two of the top painkillers in a ten billion dollar per year market. New research shows how they are capable of doubling your risk of heart disease.

Drug Companies are the Most Profitable Industry - Collectively, the 10 drug companies in the Fortune 500 topped all three of the magazine's measures of profitability in 2001.

Parent's Depression Ups Kid's Risk of Anxiety - Depression in parents increases the overall risk in their children for mental disorders and substance abuse. Fortunately there are effective non-drug solutions for depression.

Aventis to Donate Smallpox Vaccine - Aventis will donate millions doses of 40-year-old smallpox vaccine to the Department of Health and Human services. Our vaccine expert, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, expands on what this means for you.

Patients Prefer Dressed Up Doctors - Doctors who dress down on the job may inadvertently be sending the wrong message to patients.

Exercise Can Lower Risk of Death from Stroke - Stroke is a terrible problem, but men who were aerobically fit were nearly 70% less likely to have a stroke.

Quick Action-Summary of AIDS - Two theories, two books. Both are right; but neither one alone completes the picture or offers the total cure.

Upcoming Course/Seminar Information

Health Care Practitioners -- Now You Can Learn How to Structurally Optimize Health - One of the most innovative and effective structural approaches to healing I have ever seen is coming to Chicago.

Omega-3 World Expert to Talk in Chicago - If you live near Chicago you will want to hear Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D. speak on May 15th for the bargain price of $10. The latest information on this critical topic to health. I will most certainly be attending this one.

Autonomic Response Testing & Applied Clinical Nutrition Seminar - Easy to learn muscle testing for practitioners -- conducted by Dr. Ulan.

Vaccine Seminars - Opportunities to attend live lectures around the country on this vitally important issue of our times. Have your specific questions personally answered with practical alternatives.

How Beef Production Can Improve the Land and Bring Prosperity to Small Farmers - Learn this and much more at the Weston A. Price Foundation annual conference in Washington, D.C.

Are you tired of clicking on all the links to the articles? To sign up for the FULL TEXT version of this newsletter you can send a blank e-mail to: Healthnews-subscribe@topica.com The full newsletter is 20-40 pages long and can be up to 250KB, so if you have a slow Internet connection it will be several minutes to download the e-mail. WARNING: This subscription does not work if you use AOL for your e-mail.

©Copyright Dr. Joseph Mercola, 2002. All Rights Reserved. This content may be copied in full, as long as copyright, contact, and creation information is given, only if used only in a not-for-profit format. If possible, I would also appreciate an endorsement and encouragement to subscribe to the newsletter. If any other use is desired, written permission is required.

©Copyright 1997-2002 by Joseph M. Mercola, DO. All Rights Reserved. This content may be copied in full, with copyright; contact; creation; and information intact, without specific permission, when used only in a not-for-profit format. If any other use is desired, permission in writing from Dr. Mercola is required.

Disclaimer - Newsletters are based upon the opinions of Dr. Mercola. They are not intended to replace a one-on-one relationship with a qualified health care professional and they are not intended as medical advice. They are intended as a sharing of knowledge and information from the research and experience of Dr. Mercola and his community. Dr. Mercola encourages you to make your own health care decisions based upon your research and in partnership with a qualified health care professional.

ALL INFORMATION, DATA, AND MATERIAL CONTAINED, PRESENTED, OR PROVIDED HERE IS FOR GENERAL INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AS REFLECTING THE KNOWLEDGE OR OPINIONS OF THE PUBLISHER, AND IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED OR INTENDED AS PROVIDING MEDICAL OR LEGAL ADVICE. THE DECISION WHETHER OR NOT TO VACCINATE IS AN IMPORTANT AND COMPLEX ISSUE AND SHOULD BE MADE BY YOU, AND YOU ALONE, IN CONSULTATION WITH YOUR HEALTH CARE PROVIDER.