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- Ultrasound During Pregnancy
Look Daddy, the baby is smiling and waving at you on TV! the pregnant woman said joyously to her husband. The expectant couple has just forked over about three hundred clams to the clerk in the ultrasound boutique at the…
- Chiropractic Health Care Continues to Expand Globally
It was September of 1895 when Daniel David Palmer, founder of chiropractic, made the first spinal adjustment. Before that time there were no chiropractors in the United States, or anywhere else in the world. D.D. Palmer…
- Is Medical Science an Oxymoron?
Today's topic is Medical Science, one of the most expensive and prominent enterprises in our country. The time has come to give the scientific theories of medicine a checkup and find out how healthy they are. First thoug…
- Flu Vaccine for Pregnant Moms
How is it possible that the wealthiest nation on the planet has an infant mortality rate higher than just about every other industrialized country? Help is finally on the way for solving this dilemma, or so I thought whe…
- Pain is Inevitable; Suffering is Optional
Remember how the doctor lied to you when you were a kid as he jabbed your rear end with the pointy needle of a giant syringe as long as a broomstick? "This is going to hurt me a lot more than it hurts you!" Did he really…
- 1.5 Million Americans Harmed Each Year by Medication Mistakes
A report out this week from the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) estimates that 1.5 million Americans are being injured each year as a result of prescribing mistakes related to medications. The errors are costing more than…
- Do you have to be a health nut to be healthy?
The medical approach to health has come to dominate the field of primary health services in our country over the span of the last half-century or so. It goes like this. First, the doctor identifies and lists all the clin…
- Midwife-Attended Births & Modern Medicine
ut 150 years ago in the United States. That was when a small group of medical doctors decided to launch a war against m…
- Profits in the schoolyard: Apples, Pears & Soda Pop
Stalwart American corporations have been hard at work ever since, pursuing new ways to penetrate the chain link fence that surrounds the schoolyards of America, attempting to exploit that juicy, enticing market. Think of…
- Child Control & the Chemical Straightjacket
Have you ever wondered who originally came up with the cruel idea of placing thirty children in a single school classroom day after day, week after week, with only one adult in charge? If you have observed a classroom in…
- The Chiropractic Imposter
I have a patient, I will call her Mary for arguments sake. Well Mary has been coming to me at least once a week for about 20 years. She has remained asymptomatic for most of that time except for a few car accidents she h…
- A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory
As the old saying goes, "A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory." Tell the doctor which pill you want, based on which advertisement you like best, and bingo! Four minutes later you walk out of the doct…
- Placebos: Accept no substitutes
ce the unintended collateral damage caused by good-hearted, but busy, medical professionals.…
- US life expectancy falls below that of most wealthy nations
hy nations. This is totally unfair. I don't think we should blame the medical industry for our lifespan. Medicine in the United States is doing everything in its p…
- Advice about Chiropractic Schools
For nearly twelve years I have been answering questions from persons interested in more information regarding chiropractic and chiropractor schooling requirements. I am not offering advice on which schools to attend, not…
- Crain's Chiropractic Column on Vaccination, Heretical Health and Healing
Science, wrote Adam Smith back in 1776, "is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."…
- Will Chiropractic Take Over Taiwan Healthcare System
Some medical doctors in Taiwan are not happy with a proposed legislation that will allow foreign educated doctors of chiropractic to practice legally in Taiwan.…
- Pre-Medicine for Pre-Problems - a Chiropractic Report
You have got to love the pharmaceutical companies. Once again, they have demonstrated their genuine concern for our health. They are so concerned they are actually "pre-concerned"! You may be asking yourself, what does t…
- Sharing the Chiropractic Love
Chiropractic, how do I love thee, let me count the ways. SERVING humanity through our vocation has been the great love of my young life. The privilege of being able to connect and help people on a very deep and profound…
- Matters of the Heart - Cardiovascular Disease & HRT
Valentine's Day, you may recall, was named for a priest in ancient Rome. He was beheaded for secretly marrying Roman soldiers to their sweethearts against the wishes of emperor Claudius II. It seems Claudius didn't want…