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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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Antibiotic Misuse and Public Misunderstanding
by Michael Dorausch, D.C.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is hoping to cut down on the use of unnecessary antibiotics by mandating warning labels on prescription packaging, according to recent news reports. The inappropriate use of antibiotics has been a major contributor to the problem ...
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Drugs, Drugs, and more Drugs
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
Drugs around the world, if you don't think the world has an obsession with drugs, read some the articles linked below.
* News links often go fast as websites make more room for updated content. Your best approach is to get the links as soon as you can (check our s...
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Hormone Replacement Therapy - HRT Links
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
It is as if this is the headline story on every major network worldwide. These links go fast but we collected them so you could get the data you need to answer patients questions. If a link comes up dead, send us an email and we'll see if we can relocate the source. Se...
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A Bomb is Dropped on Medicine
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
If you have not yet read the news, headlines all over the world are telling women to stop taking hormone replacement drugs due to the increased risks related to heart attacks, strokes, blood clots, and other conditions/side effects.
We have been collecting sources...
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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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The Status of Research into Vaccine Safety and Autism

Opening Statement - June 19, 2002
Chairman Dan Burton
Committee on Government Reform
The Status of Research into Vaccine Safety and Autism
In April the Committee conducted a hearing reviewing the epidemic of autism and the Department of Health and Human Service’s (HHS) response. Te...
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Too Many Useless Drugs
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
According to media reports, Doctors in Germany are prescribing far too many useless drugs. These medications which have "little or no therapeutic value" is wasting health insurance money that could be better spent.
When it comes to prescribing drugs, a health insu...
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Antibiotics Don’t Work
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
Hey, is there anybody out there?! How many times will we have to continue reading in the news that antibiotics are failing us before someone actually stops prescribing/taking them?
Here it is again. News headlines from MSNBC that read... Antibiotics don’t work for...
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Department of Veterans Affairs Urgent Action Alert!
They’re trying to delay the Chiropractic V.A. health care benefit!
The World Chiropractic Alliance asks that you to act NOW.
This year, the chiropractic profession won a tremendous victory with the passage of the chiropractic V.A. law, which makes chiropractic care – including care for sub...
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Deaths From Drug Errors

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...
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Antibiotic Overuse Creating a Serious Problem

A recently published study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) suggests that, "antibiotics are vastly over-prescribed for sore throats caused by viral infections." The study found that only one in ten cases of sore throat among adults resulted in an appropriate antibiotic p...
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Chiropractic In Your World

The following has been provided by Dr. Gerry Clum and is a report from the recently concluded World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC) annual Council meeting, biannual assembly meeting and biannual Congress that were all held in Paris from May 20-May 26, 2001. Please contact Life West at the addre...
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Are You Taking Useless Drugs

Are you uselessly taking drugs that are doing you no good, costing you lots of money, and possibly putting you at risk of suffering from more serious health conditions?
According to an article on MSNBC, "Americans are expected to spend $4.7 billion this year on prescription allergy medicati...
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Kids Refusing Medicine

Recently, an article appeared on MSNBC titled, "When kids refuse their medicine - What’s a parent to do?"
A pediatrician (an expert at giving drugs to kids) offered several "tricks" that parents could use in order to get their kids to take medicines.
Among some of the tricks offered we...
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