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When Your Doctor is Wrong
By Judy Converse, MPH, RD
Hepatitis B Vaccine & Autism
Chapter 7: Does Your Kid Need This Shot?
The fact that I was never given a chance to consider whether Ben should get a hepatitis B shot made me doggedly pursue information about the virus and the vaccine. The fact that the shot’s ef...
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Public Citizen Releases Questionable Doctor Database
Consumers Can Search Online for Their Doctor
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The consumer advocacy group Public Citizen today released new information about 1,111 physicians who have been disciplined by Texas’s state medical board and other agencies for incompetence, misprescribing drugs, sexual misconduct,...
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Doctors say MMR jab is safe, Critics not so sure
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
Several news reports today suggest that researchers have found no evidence that MMR or single measles vaccines are linked with autism or inflammatory bowel disease. Many of the reports however, fail to mention that parents and critics are still concerned and may still ...
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Who is God's Doctor?
By Sal Hendrix, Nurse and future DC
While some of us still wonder how and why we're here on this planet, many of us have definite ideas. Personally, a strong belief in God and Universal energy helps me maintain a positive outlook on life. Some of us believe that we are "called" into certain pat...
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Who's Paying Your Doctor?
A recent headline on Yahoo! News titled "U.S. Patients Don't Want to Know How Doctor Is Paid" would suggest that most Americans don't want to know how their doctor is reimbursed for care.
However, if you read the article rather than just the headline you may come to a different conclusion. ...
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Some UK Doctors Don't Want to Re-vaccinate Children
According to an article on Yahoo news, Doctors in the UK and not so sure about giving a second dose of measles/mumps/rubella (MMR) vaccine to children, even though the vaccine is probably not effective without a booster shot.
The information for the article was gathered from the Lancet, a U...
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Less Drugs, Less Death and Doctors
Drugs, death and doctors. That's what the news feed link for ABC's health news read. While those are rather strong terms designed to get the users attention, it tells us a bit about America's current attitude towards the medical profession.
According to the ABC News report, the Food and Dru...
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Who's Your Doctor, Doctor?
According to a new study reported on yahoo news, no one likes visiting a medical doctors office less than medical doctors themselves. According to the article, medical doctors often neglect their own medical care and there is a concern that their personal health care decisions may reflect upon t...
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Doctor and Drug Industry Relationships Questioned
Do doctors financial ties to drug industries affect their ability to perform objective research studies? More people are saying yes but some doctors are saying no.
As more drug money from pharmaceutical manufacturers becomes available to universities and researchers, questions of ethics and...
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Injury Risk Prompts Medical Doctor Recall
Here's the scoop. A recent Reuters Health news headline reads "Injury Risk Prompts Lawn Mower Recall" and states that more than 100,000 lawn-mowers are being recalled because the blades can apparently crack off and cause injury to the operator or others nearby. (reminds me of Monty Python...It's...
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Ritalin is Over-Prescribed -- UK Doctors Say
According to a September 11th news article available on Yahoo news, the UK will soon release "strict" new guidelines involving the use of Ritalin, which may result in the drug being banned for use in children under the age of five.
The new guidelines are the result of growing concerns by so...
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Medical Doctors are not joining the AMA
ABCNEWS.com reports today that the American Medical Association is suffering from falling numbers resulting in a declining membership in the United State's largest doctor association.
According to the article, about a third of the nation’s physicians, medical residents and medical students belo...
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Does E-Mail Enhance Doctor-Patient Communication?
Keeping in touch with patients via email can be a great tool for the DC as well as a great benefit to the patient.
Today's Reuters Health features an article regarding e-mail and doctor-patient communications.
According to the article, participants in a health panel discussion found th...
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Doctors May Encourage Immunization and Other Hot Links
Some Website News Links For April 26th, 2000
Yahoo News: Friendly Doctors May Encourage Child Immunization
"Mothers who feel that a doctor is unsympathetic to their child's pain during shots may be less likely to bring their child in for future vaccinations -- or at least may choose an...
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Doctors of Chiropractic -- Scope Expansion into Drugs
Letter to the Governor
Governor Frank Keating, of the State of Oklahoma
Dear Governor Keating:
This morning I became aware of the proposal to amend the Chiropractic scope of practice to include the use of pharmaceuticals in the State of Oklahoma. This, if passed would be a mistak...
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