Squalene and the Anthrax Vaccine

We are only days away from winter solstice and both the Hanukkah and Christmas holidays are growing ever nearer. The latest ads are online and have been newly placed since Sunday, no signs of chiropractors slowing down yet. However, this may be the last chiropractic classifieds summary for 2008, depending on how many advertisements get generated during the week of upcoming holidays. All the best to everyone!

The Associazione Italiana Chiropratici (AIC) has announced that 17 years after the presentation of the first law proposal for professional recognition, on December 21, 2007, chiropractic was recognized by the Italian Parliament as a primary health care profession. For more than three decades, the AIC has led a determined struggle to secure this vitally important legal recognition for chiropractic, in the face of equally determine medical opposition.

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….

By Madeline Behrendt, D.C. This week women’s health headlined print and media stories around the globe. What triggered this attention was the halting of an 8-year U.S. Federal study that evaluated the risks/benefits of combination Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), treatment which includes estrogen and progestin (i.e. Prempro). NIH, which ran the study, notified the public,…

There are lots of ways that chiropractors collect payments from those receiving chiropractic care. Many chiropractor offices except credit cards, checks, and cash. Payment can come from insurance companies, attorneys offices, health-care savings accounts, and many other sources. I know chiropractors that even offer programs such as care-credit which allows consumers to finance amounts such as $4000 towards packages of chiropractic care. With all the methods of payments being accepted, I hadn’t heard nor seen any chiropractors using online payment processing services to pay for chiropractic adjustments, until now.

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. It appeared in the New York Times, on Thursday January 30th, health-care leaders had serious doubts about the president’s smallpox vaccination program that would involve the very health-care professionals asked to administer or receive the vaccine. How many people reading that article in the New York Times paused to recognize the…