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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.
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