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Toy and Drug Recalls
Yesterday, several featured news headlines related to various toys that are being recalled in the United States appeared across the web. The pharmaceutical industry could learn a lot about public responsibility if they would simply adopt some of the practices seen in these toy recall announcemen...
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Drug Interactions Worry Chiropractors
An article from today's Yahoo News suggests that more than half of all Americans are taking at least two different medications daily, and therefore, should be made aware of possible drug interactions.
It's very simple, the more medications you take, the greater your risk for unwanted side e...
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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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Giving Untested Drugs to Children
From Fox News comes an article titled "Drug firms urged to act over untested child medicines"
According the article, Britain's Consumers' Association has urged the pharmaceutical industry "to take immediate action against children being prescribed medicines which have only been tested for a...
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U.S. GAO seeks more info on drug errors
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 death...
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Drugs, Side Effects, and Death
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 req...
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New OSHA rules address ergonomics injuries
OSHA plans to propose new rules regarding recommended standards for repetitive stress injuries.
Among OSHA's plans, employers would have to correct injury-causing workplace conditions that require repetitive motion, overexertion or awkward posture.
OSHA reports that 1.8 million workers...
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1.5 Million Americans Harmed Each Year by Medication Mistakes
Planet Chiropractic News
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 $3.5 billion each year. The report also suggests ...
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Adderall Drug Controversy Continues
by Michael Dorausch, DC
Controversy surrounding the prescription stimulant medication Adderall has been in the press frequently this past week.
Adderall, a prescription amphetamine, typically prescribed for children and adults with ADHD, is becoming more popular for its off label uses. Amo...
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Britney Spears More Popular Than Deadly Drugs
by Daria Belov
News of the Britney Spears performance at MTV music awards, out numbers news of a Sharp Increase in Deaths from Consumer Drugs, by a factor of nearly 25 to 1.
It's no surprise that we are more interested in entertainment than we are matters of health, at least until that hea...
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Manipulation And a Drugged America
By Michael Dorausch, DC
News stories regarding Merck, the makers of Vioxx, began circulating midday April 15, with reports of manipulation of data and accusations of scientific fraud. By this morning, the inbox on my LG Voyager displaying several text messages from chiropractors throughout the ...
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More Than Half of all Primary School Children Taking Drugs
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
It's not just kids in the U.S. folks. Children throughout the world are being over-medicated by doctors and their own parents.
A survey was conducted to find if children were at risk of being over-medicated. The recent Melbourne (Australia) study found more than h...
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New national studies show combined HRT boosts stroke, dementia
By David Williamson / UNC News Services
CHAPEL HILL -- Last March, a multi-center national study made headlines by concluding that taking a combination of the hormones estrogen and progestin did not improve the quality of life for women who are free of menopause-related symptoms but did expose ...
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Selling Drugs is Good Business
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
On September 10, 2002, researchers from the National Institute for Health Care Management Research and Educational Foundation (The NIHCM Foundation) provided a report to the Federal Trade Commission at a health care workshop. The topic was Direct to Consumer (DTC) adve...
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Patients with Brain Injuries
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
According to a recent study, more patients than ever before with traumatic brain injuries are turning to alternative approaches such as chiropractic care instead of, or in addition to the traditional medical approach towards such injuries. Also, the majority of these p...
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