From London – British health officials have announced plans to set new hygiene standards for hospitals to combat the spread of so-called “superbugs.”According to the Department of Health, the new guidelines are aimed at fighting hospital-acquired infections such as MRSA, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, which are resistant to some antibiotics. “Elderly people, the very young and…
Colorado Discourages ADHD Drugs – Educators Buck Treatment Trend Jillian Lloyd, Christian Science Monitor – Colorado’s education board is now urging schools to rely more on effective classroom discipline and less on medication for unruly kids, and the move has catapulted the state to the forefront of an intense debate over the use of behavioral…
Side-effect warnings reduce effectiveness of drug ads, study finds. A Nando Times news article states, “You’ve seen the TV commercials for drugs that promise to relieve allergies, banish migraines, grow back your hair, prevent heart attacks, relieve herpes. Then comes the stern voice droning on about possible side effects, from annoying diarrhea to startlingly dire…
Richard J. Riordan, Mayor of the City of Los Angeles, visited the Global Chiropractic Network on Monday, to see what changes new digital upstarts were creating in the downtown Los Angeles community. Film crews from ABC news and other news stations turned out for the event.The Global Chiropractic Network is just one example of renewed…
According to a recent article on ABCNEWS.com, In 1998, nearly 5 million people in the United States – most of them children – were prescribed Ritalin. Production of Ritalin, the chief drug used to treat Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), is up 700% since 1990 and boys are diagnosed with ADD four times as often as…
Timothy W. Maier, of Insight magazine reports that Republicans in Congress are demanding that the FDA prove the safety of the controversial mandatory anthrax vaccine for military personnel ordered by the president.Concerned about the growing number of U.S. troops experiencing adverse side effects after submitting to an anthrax-vaccine injection, four Republican congressmen have called on…
On Thursday, the British Medical Journal made their predictions as to what the future of medicine would be. These are the future “miracles” of medicine.“Picture a world where wheelchairs can climb stairs and insulin sacs implanted in diabetics automatically release just the right amount at the right time.”“Cures aren’t really our final destination,” said Dr….
(Reuters Health) — Stay on the phone long enough and you may encounter problems worse than your phone bill: One French psychiatrist experienced temporary, stroke-like symptoms after completing an hour-long phone call, where he cradled the phone between his head and shoulder.Doctors place much of the blame for the patient’s symptoms on an unusually long…
On November 2nd, 1999, Stephanie Grenier, D.C., was elected mayor of Auburn, Georgia. Dr. Stephanie has lived in Auburn for 16 months. She moved their the day after graduation from Life University and has been in her chiropractic office for 5 months.Dr. Greniers mission statement follows.“My mission is to make a peaceful happy community by…
Test Deaths Weren’t Reported to NIH (AP) – Two researchers trying to grow new blood vessels around blocked ones failed to report to the National Institutes of Health that six people died during their gene therapy studies.Ronald Crystal of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan and Jeffrey Isner of Tufts University in Boston…
Source: Nando Times – Infants whose mothers were vaccinated against measles inherit fewer natural antibodies and are far more likely to catch the virus than infants of older, unvaccinated mothers, a study released Monday reveals. The study confirms what public health officials anticipated when the vaccine was licensed in 1963, that the population would lose…
Dynamic Essentials reports largest chiropractor attendance since 1994. Atlanta, GA. – Chiropractors, families, and staff turned out by the hundreds to attend the 153rd complete Dynamic Essentials program this past weekend. Planet Chiropractic was there and the energy was high! Dr. Sid Williams was incredibly “On” with Thursday evening’s opening to this massive event. The…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) — Prayer may reduce the number of complications experienced by hospitalized heart patients, researchers report.“This suggests that prayer may be an effective adjunct to standard medical care,” Dr. William Harris of Saint Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, and colleagues report in the October 25th issue of the Archives of Internal…
Deadly TreatmentJudge Cites Hyperactivity Drug in Homicide Acquittal BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Ten days after he began taking a widely used medicine called Adderall to control his attention deficit disorder and help him with his college studies, Ryan Ehlis slipped into a psychotic fog and killed his infant daughter.God, he said, told him to do…
Executive Order 13139 is requiring military personnel to receive experimental vaccines not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Courts-martial are pending.A day after Republican Rep. Chris Shays of Connecticut ended congressional hearings on the controversial decision mandating the inoculation of 2.4 million U.S. troops against anthrax, President Clinton quietly signed an executive order, or…
Survey: Physicians support deceiving insurers to get needed careLOS ANGELES – If a doctor believes a patient needs medical care but the insurance company won’t cover it and the patient can’t afford the expense, should the physician lie to the insurer to secure payment? Many doctors polled in a new survey say yes.Of 169 Internists…
After five successful chiropractic missions to Panama, Lina and Luis Ocon have been invited to bring their C.R.E.W. of chiropractors to the Country of Costa Rica for a chiropractic mission.The mission is scheduled for February of 2000. Up to the day information can be found here at Planet Chiropractic. Visit the Costa Rica page for…
L.A. Times: Drug reviews by New England Journal did not disclose authors’ ties to firms. Editor concedes lapses. Thursday, October 21 – The Los Angeles Times reported today that the renowned New England Journal of Medicine – the world’s top-ranked medical journal and a leading voice in biomedical ethics – has apparently violated its own…
NEW YORK, (Reuters Health) – Screening for scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine, in schools is not effective and often identifies children who never receive treatment, according to a study published Wednesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).“I do not think screening should be continued,” lead study author Dr. Barbara P….
CHICAGO (AP) – Studies on the cost-effectiveness of drugs are far more likely to report favorable findings if they are sponsored by the drug companies themselves rather than independent groups, researchers found. Their study – funded by a pharmaceutical company – appears to confirm long-held suspicions that doctors are less critical about a drug’s safety…
Shots in the DarkOctober 18th, 1999 – The Los Angeles Times today reported an article on vaccine safety. “Can childhood vaccinations cause devastating illnesses? Researchers haven’t confirmed a link, but some concerned parents argue that inoculations are posing a threat to their children.” Although there was not much discussion over the recent news of the…
The Chiropractic community continues to share the grief of Dr. Guy Riekeman, whose younger daughter, Alexis, died Thursday, Oct. 14. She was 20 years old.Dr. Riekeman sent obituary information to Palmer Chiropractic College Friday afternoon, ending it with these wishes from the family: “Rest and peace and love, our sweet daughter and sister.”A memorial service…
WASHINGTON (AP) American Home Products pulled its vaccine against the leading cause of childhood diarrhea off the market today, because of concerns that it may increase infants’ risk of bowel obstruction.The government in July advised doctors to temporarily stop giving children the vaccine against rotavirus after counting at least 20 infants who developed a bowel…
By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Chiropractors returned home on Monday from the fifth CREW mission to Panama. This mission to Panama was different from any other since the adjusting was held in one location and all the DC’s kept together as one group. Chiropractors representing those from previous missions, attended an event known as ExpoMedica, which…
Commentary by Dawn RichardsonPregnant women everywhere know the feeling of making it to the milestone of their second trimester. For most, queasiness starts to subside, energy returns in spurts, and of course there is that indescribable feeling ofbecoming aware of your developing baby’s movements.You’ve altered your diet, exercised, stayed away from over the counter medications,…
Summary 9/28 Congressional Hearing on VICP The U.S Congress Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Human Resources and Drug Policy (the same subcommittee that held the hearing on May 18, 1999) held another hearing on Tuesday, September 28, 1999 at 10:00 AM entitled “Compensating Vaccine Injuries: Are Reforms Needed?” This is a long article and is available…
Class Action Seeks Compensation for Denied Coverage Source: ABC NewsW A S H I N G T O N, – Health insurer Humana Inc. was sued today in a first-of-its-kind class action suit, which alleged it failed to disclose the conditions of its health coverage and that it paid medical doctors to deny coverage. The…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…