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Outgoing Mayor Richard Riordan and Mayor-elect James Hahn jointly declared today Los Angeles Lakers Day in the city of Los Angeles. An estimated five hundred fifty thousand people lined Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles (just blocks from our office) for today’s NBA championship parade.

It’s all over this morning’s news; medical doctors in the U.S. are urging a ban on the prescription drug advertising seen on television, in newspapers, and in magazines. According to reports from ABC News and MSNBC, The American Medical Association says a ban “is needed to keep patients from being misinformed.” Medical doctors had the…

It’s 6:00 am in downtown Los Angeles and already the streets are filling with folks coming out to celebrate their 2001 NBA Champions, The Los Angeles Lakers. With the Staples Center being only blocks from this office, it’s difficult not to get caught up in all the excitement. The streets outside are lined with purple…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Dr. Jeff Ptak of Santa Monica, California has just returned home from his first chiropractic “mission” to Cuba. While the original plan of bringing a group to Havana to provide chiropractic care did not materialize, Dr. Jeff did make the trip solo. While in Cuba, he spoke at an international conference,…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. According to an article posted by yourhealthdaily, there are currently no fewer than 300 vaccines in various stages of development planned for use in humans. Three Hundred Vaccines. Will vaccines solve the problems created by years of antibiotic misuse which has led to the emergence of drug-resistant microorganisms, bacteria, viruses, fungi…

These are the headlines of a recent ABC News article: “Just Say No to Drugs – Ways to Avoid a Life Sentence With Prescription Drugs” It appears to be sheik to take stabs at drug companies nowadays, and drug companies probably don’t like it. While the ABC article is still in the “fix it” mentality,…

According to an article on ABC News, a Jury has ordered the manufacturer of Paxil, the nation’s second-best-selling anti-depressant, to pay $8 million to relatives of a man who killed himself and three others after taking the drug. Paxil is made by SmithKline Beecham and the $8 million award damages were the result of a…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Chiropractic students throughout the world benefit tremendously from the efforts of DCs and staff that take the time to support students in their endeavors. It was the chiropractors in my life, coming to speak to us at school, inviting us to their offices to observe them in practice, spending hours with…

Below, you will find a link for a printable raffle ticket. If you print and fill out the ticket and send it with a check for $50 to us, your name will be entered in the drawing for $5000!

Students at Cleveland Chiropractic College Los Angeles, Club Chiropractic, have long been dedicated to promoting the importance of chiropractic philosophy. At the beginning of every trimester, they sponsor an entire week of philosophy and invite five dynamic, philosophical chiropractors to share their knowledge with aspiring chiropractic students.

By Michel Tetrault, D.C. – Ideas for an updated model of structuring chiropractic missions. Chiropractic Ecotourism may well be defined as travel related activities that combine a vacation to a foreign country with a humanitarian activity. These missions are value driven experiences that bring great personal gratification for the participating Doctors of Chiropractic. Short-term humanitarian…

Dr. D.D. Humber has been elected President of the International Chiropractors Association, according to news from the east coast. The news was announced during this past weekends 75th Annual Meeting of the International Chiropractors Association. More on this later in the week. From the ICA Policy StatementThe International Chiropractors Association is the oldest national chiropractic…

The following has been provided by Dr. Gerry Clum and is a report from the recently concluded World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC) annual Council meeting, biannual assembly meeting and biannual Congress that were all held in Paris from May 20-May 26, 2001. Please contact Life West at the address provided below and thank Dr. Clum…

“Medical Dogma”, those were the words used in describing medicine’s long held belief that the human heart is incapable of regenerating new heart cells. According to several news articles, research scientists have now discovered that damaged hearts can repair themselves by growing new muscle cells. This discovery challenges decades of medical dogma, a belief system…

By Super CA Lynne It’s 6:00 am Sunday morning, the day I usually sleep until 8:00 am but my body won’t let me sleep. I went to Wonders of Chiropractic gathering yesterday and my mind has been spinning ever since. There were so many students and recent grads there. Their eyes were full of fire,…

From Yahoo News: According to a recent Harris Interactive Poll, “only tobacco companies do a worse job than managed care and health insurance companies in serving their customers.” According to the article, that’s basically the same way people have felt about HMOs and insurance companies since 1997 when the public perception polls first began. Do…

Restoring Sulfnbk.exeThis article is being posted to counter the hundreds of emails we received yesterday regarding a virus many of you were sure you found on your computers. The hoax email which was forwarded with good intention by many of you included this message: After you have deleted the virus (windows file) “The GOOD NEWS…

From Dayton, Ohio comes a commentary on drugs in America titled, “Rx for America’s Drug Issues Is Not in A Pill.” This is certainly an article you will want to print and save. Perhaps we will have some commentary written later but for now, click the link and save the file for future use. Your…

Are you uselessly taking drugs that are doing you no good, costing you lots of money, and possibly putting you at risk of suffering from more serious health conditions? According to an article on MSNBC, “Americans are expected to spend $4.7 billion this year on prescription allergy medications like Claritin, Allegra and Zyrtec. But a…

The New York Times yesterday published an article titled, “Incompetent Physicians Are Rarely Reported as Law Requires” which suggests that health maintenance organizations (H.M.O.’s) and hospitals rarely report incompetent doctors to the government as they are required to. According to the article, “in the last decade, 84 percent of H.M.O.’s and 60 percent of hospitals…

A May 23rd article on KomoTV.com highlights the story of a young woman wrongly diagnosed with cancer in 1998. According to the article, Jennifer Rufer went from a “pretty young newlywed to a cancer patient hiding her hair loss under a baseball cap” and had received chemotherapy, a hysterectomy and lung surgery due to a…

By Sid Mouk, D.C. “Nothing can be done to help you because you have _______________ and it’s incurable.” I recently spoke with a nurse who was having problems with her hair falling out in large amounts. She has been through many difficult situations in her life and, therefore, told me she thought it was due…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. A recent ABC News report suggests that the cash you carry may be “contaminated with so much bacteria that it could make you sick.” Fortunately for you, there is a solution to this potential problem. According to the article, researchers had collected dollar bills and studied them for bacteria content. Sixty-eight…

Many chiropractors throughout the United States and the rest of the world regularly host radio and/or cable television programs that feature various chiropractic topics. Thanks to the internet and streaming technology, several of those broadcasts are available for listening via your computer. A program known as “Waking Up in America” is one such program and…

By Stew Bittman, D.C. Smack dab in the middle of my second day of “poor me”, I take to pen because, for me, clarity often follows writing like a dutiful hound. Things have been so incredibly wonderful, and I’ve been feeling very much focused on and connected to Innate, while being very much aware of…

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. The state of New Jersey is an interesting place to say the least. The “Garden State” is often referred to as a less than pretty and/or friendly place to visit. Quite a few chiropractors practice in the state of New Jersey and while it may come as a surprise to some,…