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UNLOCKING AUTISM – Vaccines/Autism CNN Story to Air

By: Shelley ReynoldsOn Sunday, October 3, 1999, at 9pm est, 8pm cst/pac time, CNN will air astory called “A Question of Harm?” on it’s news magazine, Time/NewsStand.The story has been promoted in this week’s issue of Time Magazine as well.Double check your local listings.The story will feature the Reynolds Family, founders of Unlocking Autism andOpen

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Health care’s deadly secret: Accidents routinely happen

By Andrea GerlinThe Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital is a typical teaching hospital. It is known for cutting-edge research programs, for training medical students and newly graduated doctors, and for providing advanced medical care.It is also representative of modern American hospitals in another respect: In the last decade alone, records show, hundreds of MCP Hospital

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Welcome to Kid’s Day America!

That was what the banners said all across the country on Saturday, September 26th, 1999. Chiropractors, staff, and volunteers worldwide put on events in their communities to help promote a vertebral subluxation free world. In Los Angeles, chapters from the Student International Chiropractors Association (SICA) from both Los Angeles Chiropractic College (LACC) and Cleveland Chiropractic

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Antibiotic overuse still a problem, experts say

SAN FRANCISCO — Experts have been pounding the same message over and over again for years – overuse of antibiotics has helped fuel the rise of drug-resistant “superbugs.”Yet the abuse of antibiotics remains a cause for concern and could even be on the rise, scientists and doctors told a drugs meeting here.“The prevalence of antibiotic-resistant

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Last Resort Drug Against Worst Bugs

Strongest Antibiotic ApprovedFrom Associated PressToday, the FDA approved Synercid to treat vancomycin-resistant enterococcal infections, a life-threatening infection that typically strikes hospital patients. One recent study estimated as many as 52 percent of enterococcal infections are now vancomycin-resistant, making them difficult if not impossible to treat.The FDA also approved Synercid to treat certain complicated skin infections

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Race is on to make drugs to fight super bugs

For the last 10 years, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and elsewhere have, according to news stories, been sounding alarms about the growth of antibiotic resistance, a problem that is particularly prevalent in hospitals, where microbes spread quickly and attack the elderly, people with weak immune systems and other vulnerable patients.

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Drug maker sought sales increase despite evidence

DALLAS (AP) — Despite growing evidence that a link existed between the diet drugs fen-phen and fatal lung disease and heart damage, a maker of one of the drugs lobbied the government to relax limits on its use, The Dallas Morning News reported Monday.Internal company memos in 1996 indicated that American Home Products knew of

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Internet will change doctor-patient relationships

NEW YORK, (Reuters Health) — Just as it revolutionized other industries, the Internet is set to change the face of healthcare as we know it. And perhaps nowhere will the effects be more pronounced than on doctor-patient relationships, a Canadian researcher predicts.In the September 18th issue of the British Medical Journal, Alejandro R. Jadad of

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Chiropractic Mission to PANAMA – October 6th – 10th!

By Luis Ocon, D.C.We have been contacted by the Chamber of Commerce and the Convention Center in Panama advising us of their upcoming Expomedica. Expomedica, is an international event for health care for all Latin American countries, including Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. It is an event which showcases the latest tech

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Rotavirus vaccine may be linked to more cases of bowel disorder

BETHESDA, MD,(Reuters Health) – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received reports of 99 cases of intussusception that may be related to RotaShield rotavirus vaccine, an FDA medical officer said Tuesday.Intussusception, where part of the bowel telescopes into an adjacent part, most commonly occurs in infants and young children. The disorder causes bowel obstruction,

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Hospital Patients Worry They’ll Get Wrong Drug

Patients are more concerned about receiving the wrong medication in the hospital than about pain or cost of treatment, according to a new study. The telephone survey of 1,008 adults was conducted by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), a professional organization that mainly represents pharmacists who are employed in hospitals.Some 61 percent of

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Seniors face Medicare HMO cutbacks

Senior citizens who left traditional Medicare and joined an HMO to save money and gain benefits are in for a shock: Premiums, doctor visits and even hospital stays will cost more next year. The changes are the first round of significant benefit cutbacks by Medicare HMO insurers, many of whom say they were forced to

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Cell therapy shows promise as treatment for spinal cord injury

Source: Nando Health/Sciencehttp://www.nandotimes.com – Spinal cord injuries are responsible for one of the human body’s most frustrating phenomena – they simply do not heal, leaving victims permanently paralyzed and medical doctors helpless.It was long a truism in the medical profession that the spinal cord could never recover from injuries, with or without the help of

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Doctor Groups in State Face Crisis

California faces “epidemic” of bankruptcies, medical association official says. Dozens of groups expect to go out of business by end of the year, according to figures to be released today by the California Medical Assn.

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Medical school applications decline for second year

NEW YORK, Aug 31 — The overall number of students applying to US medical schools has declined slightly for the second year in a row, with the drop in male applicants greater than the drop in female applicants, according to a report in the September 1st issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association

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UNLOCKING AUTISM – Vaccines/Autism CNN Story to Air

By: Shelley ReynoldsOn Sunday, October 3, 1999, at 9pm est, 8pm cst/pac time, CNN will air astory called “A Question of Harm?” on it’s news magazine, Time/NewsStand.The story has been promoted in this week’s issue of Time Magazine as well.Double check your local listings.The story will feature the Reynolds Family, founders of Unlocking Autism andOpen

Read More »

Health care’s deadly secret: Accidents routinely happen

By Andrea GerlinThe Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital is a typical teaching hospital. It is known for cutting-edge research programs, for training medical students and newly graduated doctors, and for providing advanced medical care.It is also representative of modern American hospitals in another respect: In the last decade alone, records show, hundreds of MCP Hospital

Read More »

Welcome to Kid’s Day America!

That was what the banners said all across the country on Saturday, September 26th, 1999. Chiropractors, staff, and volunteers worldwide put on events in their communities to help promote a vertebral subluxation free world. In Los Angeles, chapters from the Student International Chiropractors Association (SICA) from both Los Angeles Chiropractic College (LACC) and Cleveland Chiropractic

Read More »

Antibiotic overuse still a problem, experts say

SAN FRANCISCO — Experts have been pounding the same message over and over again for years – overuse of antibiotics has helped fuel the rise of drug-resistant “superbugs.”Yet the abuse of antibiotics remains a cause for concern and could even be on the rise, scientists and doctors told a drugs meeting here.“The prevalence of antibiotic-resistant

Read More »

Last Resort Drug Against Worst Bugs

Strongest Antibiotic ApprovedFrom Associated PressToday, the FDA approved Synercid to treat vancomycin-resistant enterococcal infections, a life-threatening infection that typically strikes hospital patients. One recent study estimated as many as 52 percent of enterococcal infections are now vancomycin-resistant, making them difficult if not impossible to treat.The FDA also approved Synercid to treat certain complicated skin infections

Read More »

Race is on to make drugs to fight super bugs

For the last 10 years, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and elsewhere have, according to news stories, been sounding alarms about the growth of antibiotic resistance, a problem that is particularly prevalent in hospitals, where microbes spread quickly and attack the elderly, people with weak immune systems and other vulnerable patients.

Read More »

Drug maker sought sales increase despite evidence

DALLAS (AP) — Despite growing evidence that a link existed between the diet drugs fen-phen and fatal lung disease and heart damage, a maker of one of the drugs lobbied the government to relax limits on its use, The Dallas Morning News reported Monday.Internal company memos in 1996 indicated that American Home Products knew of

Read More »

Internet will change doctor-patient relationships

NEW YORK, (Reuters Health) — Just as it revolutionized other industries, the Internet is set to change the face of healthcare as we know it. And perhaps nowhere will the effects be more pronounced than on doctor-patient relationships, a Canadian researcher predicts.In the September 18th issue of the British Medical Journal, Alejandro R. Jadad of

Read More »

Chiropractic Mission to PANAMA – October 6th – 10th!

By Luis Ocon, D.C.We have been contacted by the Chamber of Commerce and the Convention Center in Panama advising us of their upcoming Expomedica. Expomedica, is an international event for health care for all Latin American countries, including Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. It is an event which showcases the latest tech

Read More »

Rotavirus vaccine may be linked to more cases of bowel disorder

BETHESDA, MD,(Reuters Health) – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has received reports of 99 cases of intussusception that may be related to RotaShield rotavirus vaccine, an FDA medical officer said Tuesday.Intussusception, where part of the bowel telescopes into an adjacent part, most commonly occurs in infants and young children. The disorder causes bowel obstruction,

Read More »

Hospital Patients Worry They’ll Get Wrong Drug

Patients are more concerned about receiving the wrong medication in the hospital than about pain or cost of treatment, according to a new study. The telephone survey of 1,008 adults was conducted by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), a professional organization that mainly represents pharmacists who are employed in hospitals.Some 61 percent of

Read More »

Seniors face Medicare HMO cutbacks

Senior citizens who left traditional Medicare and joined an HMO to save money and gain benefits are in for a shock: Premiums, doctor visits and even hospital stays will cost more next year. The changes are the first round of significant benefit cutbacks by Medicare HMO insurers, many of whom say they were forced to

Read More »

Cell therapy shows promise as treatment for spinal cord injury

Source: Nando Health/Sciencehttp://www.nandotimes.com – Spinal cord injuries are responsible for one of the human body’s most frustrating phenomena – they simply do not heal, leaving victims permanently paralyzed and medical doctors helpless.It was long a truism in the medical profession that the spinal cord could never recover from injuries, with or without the help of

Read More »

Doctor Groups in State Face Crisis

California faces “epidemic” of bankruptcies, medical association official says. Dozens of groups expect to go out of business by end of the year, according to figures to be released today by the California Medical Assn.

Read More »

Medical school applications decline for second year

NEW YORK, Aug 31 — The overall number of students applying to US medical schools has declined slightly for the second year in a row, with the drop in male applicants greater than the drop in female applicants, according to a report in the September 1st issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association

Read More »