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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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More Over-prescribing of Ritalin Reported
We have reported previously about the number of children being prescribed ritalin that have not met any type of diagnostic criteria. We have also reported previously on the many articles siting overuse and abuse of stimulants such as ritalin.
From Fox News comes an article titled, "Controve...
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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 d...
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Unlicensed Drugs Being Prescribed To Children
The January 8th issue of the British Medical Journal reports that two thirds of children in a recent study, in European hospitals have received unlicensed drugs.
The practice of prescribing drugs that have not been approved for use in children is widespread, European researchers report. The...
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Study says ADHD May Be Over-Diagnosed in Children
planetc1.com chiropractic news
Norfolk, Va. - Doctors may be over-diagnosing some groups of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and over prescribing drugs to treat the condition, according to a new study published Wednesday.
ADHD has been estimated to affect 3% to 5% of ...
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Most Kids Ear Infections Healing without Antibiotics
by Michael Dorausch, Chiropractor
A recent study published in a September issue of JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical Association) found that most kids with ear infections do not need antibiotics, but they get them anyway.
It is estimated that up to 98% of medical doctors treat ear ...
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Antibiotics Found Useless for Most Cases of Bronchitis
by Michael Dorausch, DC
planetc1.com news staff
Virginia: There is no evidence antibiotics do any good for the great majority of patients suffering with acute bronchitis, and medical doctors should cease routinely prescribing them, according to recent reports by university researchers.
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Daniel David Palmer and Chiropractic Founders Day 2008
By Michael Dorausch
A trip to the medical doctor in September of 1895 could involve the taking of medicines such as calomel (mercury chloride) or tarter emetic to induce vomiting or create a laxative effect, or if one suffered a cough, a dose of opium could calm it quick. Blood letting, forced ...
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Child Control & the Chemical Straightjacket
by Darrel Crain, Doctor of Chiropractic
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 session, you know for certain that...
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More Advertising - More Drugs
An article on MSNBC suggests that Americans are taking more prescription drugs thanks in part to massive advertising introduced by the drug industry. According to the article, Americans who visited a medical doctors office in 1999 were far more likely to receive more than one drug then Americans...
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Research Psychiatrists Fail to Report Earnings From Drug Companies
By Michael Dorausch, DC
Call it a psycho conflict of interest affecting the health and lives of thousands of children, an Iowa senator has discovered 3 Harvard researchers earned millions of dollars in consulting fees from drug companies, for performing research and evangelizing antipsychotic d...
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The vitamin menace - are vitamins dangerous?
The vitamin menace
By Darrel Crain, DC
Glancing at the daily newspaper one morning this week, I immediately thought of Groucho Marx when he said, "A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!"
The curious front-page story that had me scratching my head concerned the ...
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Merck Wants a New Drug - Vioxx, Zocor, Gardasil and Cancer
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
Google News headlines today read... "Merck cutbacks: 7,000 jobs, 5 plants" spurred by an announcement made by Merck yesterday.
According to various news articles, Merck, the world's third-largest drugmaker, will be closing 5 plants in the wake of 6,400 lawsuits th...
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ADHD Drugs Outselling Antibiotics in Kids
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
More Kids are on More Drugs.
It's the same news we reported on in January of 2003 and August of 2002. "According to new research, the number of American children being treated with psychiatric drugs (such as Ritalin) has tripled from 1987 to 1996 and is showing no s...
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Take a Stand (on Chiropractic)
Lou Corleto, D.C., PhC (hon)
Do you want Chiropractic to "take off," your practice to "take off?" Then we need to start thinking, speaking and acting as though they have and they will. Of course doing this will separate you from many people including some chiropractors. They will call you crazy...
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