Last week the Los Angeles Times reported that AIDS researchers are finding that gaps in drug therapy have helped some AIDS patients. The approach is called structured treatment interruption or STI. The theory behind STI is to stop giving drugs and allow the immune system an opportunity to comprehend and adapt to its environment, which will allow the body to mount an immune response against the virus.
Here are several headlines from the National Stroke Association that appeared in today’s news. Follow the links for complete articles. Inflammation linked to stroke risk Yahoo’s Health News Number of strokes and mini-strokes rising Yahoo’s Health News Stroke warning signs too often ignored Yahoo’s Health News Many stroke patients experience depression Yahoo’s Health News planetc1.com-news…
by Dr. Stew Bittman Mahatma Gandhi once said, “You must be the change you wish to see in the world”. These are very wise words that are vividly applicable to our environmental crisis. We will never care for the planet any better than we care for ourselves. We will never heal Mother Earth’s wounds until…
A new report published in the February issue of the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings suggests that a positive mental outlook leads to a longer life. The report suggests that “individuals who profess pessimistic explanations for life events have poorer physical health,” according to researchers led by Dr. Toshihiko Maruta of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
On Sunday, the front page of the business section of the Los Angeles Times featured an article about a Medical Doctor looking for a career makeover. The headline read: “Career Make-Over – He Wants to Hang Up Stethoscope”. The article talks about an individual who for the past 20 years has been practicing as an emergency-room physician and internist.
Hamsters developing severe destructive arthritis, is the Lyme vaccine safe? What the vaccine maker has to say. The following headlines came across the wire recently. We have included them here so that you could easily locate and use them in educating others.
By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Monday, February 7, 2000Herbert Ross Reaver, D.C., a longtime chiropractic warrior and the profession’s “most jailed chiropractor” died this morning. Dr. Reaver had been a chiropractor for more than 70 years and was still practicing chiropractic in Cincinnati, Ohio as recently as this past Friday. He was chiropractic, through and through….
The General Accounting Office is the investigative arm of Congress. GAO’s mission is to help the Congress oversee federal programs and operations to assure accountability to the American people. A two-year study by the U.S. GAO has concluded that adverse drug events, complications or even deaths due to mistakes in the prescribing or use of drugs, is a serious problem, but is impossible to measure because of a lack of information.
On January 31, 2000, an Alaska Airline commercial plane crashed off the coast of California. 88 persons are feared dead in the jetliner crash. Within hours of the crash, news stations across the planet where reporting on the tragedy. There is probably not a single person reading this article that has not already seen several reports of the crash on television, in print, and on the internet. So why are we telling you about it now?
These statistics come from a web site we found and have not been verified for accuracy. The numbers should get you to stop and think and hopefully search for more information.
A list of hyper-linked articles on vaccination issues that may be of value to you and your practice community.
Results from a recent survey published in the January issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, indicate that approximately 1 in every 5,000 patients receiving liposuction by a board certified plastic surgeon in the United States over a 4-year period died from complications of the procedure. According to the report, Americans are at higher risk of dying from liposuction than from traffic accidents, based on 1996 figures.
The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine reports this week on the homeopathic and naturopathic practices of some practitioners in Massachusetts. According to the survey, most of the providers questioned said that they do not actively recommend immunization. More than 50% of doctors in the survey were licensed medical doctors.
News of the passing of Dr. Price has been forwarded to us.We are including the forwarded information in its entirety.———-P-C———- Dr. Galen Price, the fourth President of Palmer College of Chiropractic,died on Monday, Jan. 17, 2000, in Lakeland, Fla. He was the firstpresident of the College who was not a member of the Palmer family,succeeding…
This article was reported on in April by ABCNEWS.com. We had some requests from doctors looking for this article so the link has been added here.
As reported in this weeks American Medical News, the CDC has found that the widely used antibiotic, erythromycin may be associated with infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis in very young infants. At a community hospital in Tennessee, seven infants receiving erythromycin for exposure to pertussis developed infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis over the next seven months, according to the CDC.
U.S. health spending for 1998 rose 5.6 percent in relation to the previous year as reported by Nando Media. Rising costs for prescription drugs and higher insurance premiums are the primary cause for increases in the nation’s health care spending.
According to recent reports, the controversial drug Ritalin is beginning to be phased out of the marketplace in favor of a powerful blend of amphetamines known as Adderall. Adderall is reported to be twice as potent as Ritalin (like crack is to cocaine?) and was originally marketed as an obesity drug in Canada. Adderall is…
The January 8th issue of the British Medical Journal reports that two thirds of children in a recent study, in European hospitals have received unlicensed drugs. The practice of prescribing drugs that have not been approved for use in children is widespread, European researchers report. There is a considerable concern in both Europe and the United States about the use of “unlicensed or off label drugs in children.”
Several sources in the press are again reporting on the growing resistance of bacteria to prescribed antibiotics. The CDC reported this week that a 63-year-old woman died from an infection of Staphylococcus aureus which was resistant to traditional antibiotics.
Healtheon/WebMD Corp. and HNC Software have announced plans to process workers’ compensation and auto injury claims on the Internet beginning this summer. The hope is that by eliminating the traditional paper-based claims system, the companies estimate that the average cost of processing and paying medical claims could drop from $15 to $2 per bill.
Terence Monmaney of the L.A. Times reports that “research into the topic of optimism finds not only that positive people live longer, but that a sunny outlook can be taught.” Science has largely avoided the subject of optimism during the past century. The topic of optimism was so disreputable “that one of modernity’s most influential…
Nicholas Regush of ABCNEWS.com reports that “Attention Deficit” may not be the real problem. According to the Drug Enforcement Agency, prescriptions for methylpenidate, know as Ritalin, increased more than 60 percent between 1990 and 1996.
ABCNEWS.com reports today on the top 10 advances in Medicine. I found the top two advances to be the most interesting and you’ll want to read what ABCNEWS has to say about #1.ABCNEWS surveyed “leading experts” from a variety of medical specialties. The top ten are listed below, please visit ABCNEWS.com for a complete description…
A Writer of a recent book says that AIDS may have jumped from chimps to humans via an experimental polio vaccine yet the scientific community has expressed little interest in the theory. British writer Edward Hooper, is the author of a new book on AIDS. Hooper is on a campaign to persuade the medical world…
University of Washington researchers found that doctors do not conduct discussions that enable patients to understand fully their treatment options. “Do patients really know what they’re getting when they take that new drug or agree to that ground breaking surgery?” is the question asked according to a recent study in the latest Journal of the…
Nando media and associated press report that Federal investigators have documented almost 3,000 medical mistakes and mishaps in less than two years at veterans hospitals around the United States. More than 700 patients have died in those reported cases. This report is the result of a new policy that requires employees to report medical errors…
he Los Angeles Times reports that Deaths are climbing since the FDA received a warning on the dangers of Rezulin.Although FDA officials were publicly warned that “every patient taking the diabetes pill Rezulin was at risk of sudden liver failure and no reliable way existed to protect them” by their own experts, the FDA decided…
MSNBC reports today on the alternative medicine bandwagon and women.“There’s a health trend that’s making big gains among women: alternative medicine.” More than 83 million Americans are using alternative medicine and the majority are women. Every day, more people are embracing alternative methods of healthcare. The number one reason in doing so is taking control…
According to new reports, government uncovers too few of the injuries and deaths caused by prescription drug side effects.Recent studies suggest that an estimated 2 million Americans are hospitalized annually from drug side effects, and 100,000 die.Interestingly, the FDA does not require injuries and deaths caused by prescription drug side effects to be reported. All…
Medical doctors are seeing more visits of youngsters diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a report published in the December issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.The proportion of youth visits to physicians that were for ADHD increased steadily from 1989 to 1996, and so did the number of visits that involved…
In efforts to keep workers happy in a tight labor market, US employers are sweetening health benefits packages even as the cost of providing that coverage is rising at a rate nearly triple that of general inflation, results of a new survey suggest.More employers are embracing programs that save money by improving health, such as…
The Los Angeles Times and Nando News report that two of California’s largest pension funds may drop the managed health care coverage for their members and contract directly with doctors and hospitals.The California State Teachers Retirement System and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System are both considering dropping HMO’s and together represent about 1.5 million…
Nicholas Regush of ABCNEWS.com reports today for medical doctors to come clean.“Step up, all ye doctors who have advised patients that their problems are all in their ‘minds.’ Here’s your opportunity to come clean. Repeat after me: ‘I had no idea what I was talking about.’ See, that wasn’t so bad. Feels good to let…
The Journal of the American Medical Association reported today that Genes play role in child ear infections. The article states that “next to the common cold, middle ear infections are the most common childhood illness. Most children will be affected by the time they are 3 years old.”Dr. Scott Stachelek writes that maybe it’s because…