Good thing I don’t write prescriptions. The headlines should have read “Medication Mistakes Continue to Kill and/or Harm Millions.” Silly me, everyone knows chiropractors don’t prescribe medications. Selling drugs, that is the business of medicine. As it turns out, the report is from the well-respected Institute of Medicine. Headlines tonight from several hundred news organizations around the globe read as follows…
The “father of fluoridation,” Dr. Trendley Dean assured everyone in the 1930s and 1940s that the addition of fluoride to water was “safe and effective,” even “necessary” for strong bones and teeth. Dr. Dean later gave courtroom testimony on two separate occasions that his original claims were based on invalid statistics. Perhaps we are now in a position to realize that “safe and effective” is a powerful secret code used by captains of American industry in place of a different term, “hideously toxic.”
By Michael Dorausch, D.C. In case you thought it just happens in the United States, news reports today from London suggest that deaths from drug errors and side effects are sharply on the rise in the UK. According to a report in today’s Yahoo News, the number of Britons dying in hospitals from medication prescribing
By Shawn Powers, D.C. “I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can.” – Helen Keller The world needs your help. Children are at risk. Parents and children would benefit from learning the ADIO approach
Medical Mistakes More Serious for Children According to articles in yesterdays Yahoo News and ABCNews.com, a new study finds that, “Nearly one out of every 17 medications ordered by doctors for infants and children in the hospital is incorrect.” According to one article, researchers suggest that until medication errors can be routinely prevented, parents need
Good thing I don’t write prescriptions. The headlines should have read “Medication Mistakes Continue to Kill and/or Harm Millions.” Silly me, everyone knows chiropractors don’t prescribe medications. Selling drugs, that is the business of medicine. As it turns out, the report is from the well-respected Institute of Medicine. Headlines tonight from several hundred news organizations around the globe read as follows…
The “father of fluoridation,” Dr. Trendley Dean assured everyone in the 1930s and 1940s that the addition of fluoride to water was “safe and effective,” even “necessary” for strong bones and teeth. Dr. Dean later gave courtroom testimony on two separate occasions that his original claims were based on invalid statistics. Perhaps we are now in a position to realize that “safe and effective” is a powerful secret code used by captains of American industry in place of a different term, “hideously toxic.”
By Michael Dorausch, D.C. In case you thought it just happens in the United States, news reports today from London suggest that deaths from drug errors and side effects are sharply on the rise in the UK. According to a report in today’s Yahoo News, the number of Britons dying in hospitals from medication prescribing
By Shawn Powers, D.C. “I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can.” – Helen Keller The world needs your help. Children are at risk. Parents and children would benefit from learning the ADIO approach
Medical Mistakes More Serious for Children According to articles in yesterdays Yahoo News and ABCNews.com, a new study finds that, “Nearly one out of every 17 medications ordered by doctors for infants and children in the hospital is incorrect.” According to one article, researchers suggest that until medication errors can be routinely prevented, parents need