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A Two Trillion Dollar Health Care Bill
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
According to an article published by Nando Media, U.S. Government estimates show that "health care" cost Americans a record $1.2 trillion last year. The article states that prescription drugs are accounting for nearly 10 percent of the costs related to maintaining one'...
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Free Drug Samples are not Free
A medical clinic in Seattle was looking for ways to cut prescription costs and to do so, decided to stop allowing free drug samples from being distributed at their clinic.
Does that make any sense? If they're trying to cut costs why are they cutting out the free drug samples?
The clini...
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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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Deadly Drug Pulled From Market
According to several news sources, the makers of the drug "Lotronex" are pulling it from the market due to it's deadly side effects.
According to ABC News, "Lotronex can cause severe side effects, including a life-threatening intestinal inflammation called ischemic colitis, and constipation...
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Mexico & Costa Rica Recall Drugs with PPA
According to reports, pharmacies in Mexico and in Costa Rica have announced to pull 53 over-the-counter medicines that contain PPA, an ingredient found to increase one's risk of hemorrhagic stroke.
On November 6th, the U.S. FDA had issued a warning to Americans, to immediately quit using dr...
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More Antibiotic Misuse
A Yahoo News headline reads "Emergency Doctors Often Misuse Antibiotics"
According to the article, emergency room doctors are "inappropriately prescribing antibiotics" leading to even greater risks of drug-resistant infections.
A national survey revealed that during a one year period, ...
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Superbugs are Superkillers
The ABC News headlines read, "Antibiotics Essentially Useless Against Many Diseases" and MSNBC headlines read, " 'Superbugs' pose global health threat."
The World Health Organization reported yesterday that, "if people do not stop misusing antibiotics, new 'superbugs' that resist all drugs ...
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What does "Shows Promise" really mean?
Kerry T. Kilpatrick, D.C., (Hon) F.I.C.A.
One of my pet peeves is the ubiquitous media stories that herald the newest drug that "shows promise" for sufferers of XYZ disease. You never hear the follow up story that says the drug actually "cures" anything because, as we all know, DRUGS CURE NOTHI...
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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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The Art & Science of Drug Pushing
From New York magazine comes an article titled: "Inside the Happiness Business"
The opening statement to the 6-page article states that "Before a drug like Celexa can ease the minds of patients, marketers must capture the minds of doctors -- using free gifts, dinners, propaganda, and resear...
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Just Say No to Antibiotics
From Yahoo News comes a report from the CDC titled: "CDC Warns About Overuse of Antibiotics"
The CDC report was issued "in an effort to reduce the growing numbers of drug-resistant bacteria" and CDC officials are "urging physicians to stop prescribing antibiotics where the drugs are not nec...
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Patients keep MD's in the dark
From FOXNEWS.com comes an article titled: "Patients Do Not Tell Doctors Their Concerns, Fears"
The article is based on a report in this week's issue of the British Medical Journal and explains that when visiting a medical doctor, "many patients do not voice many of the concerns that prompte...
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Life Enhancement Family Chiropractic
By Dr. George E. Logothetis, D.C.
America Has Finally Discovered The Difference Between Health care And Sick Care.
The past decade has marked an incredible increase in how our country has utilized alternative health care. In 1990 researchers estimated that over 425 million visits were ...
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Give drugs to healthy people and what do you get?
ABCNEWS.com reports that "last year, an estimated 180 million Americans or two thirds of the population, took prescription drugs that may have potential harmful side effects."
The question asked in the report relates to the prescribing of drugs and what precautions, if any, are medical doctors ...
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Does Ritalin Cause Cancer in Children?
According to an article in the Los Angeles Times, Ritalin along with many other medications can cause cancer in animals. The question asked by parents is "if Ritalin causes cancer in mice, what studies have been done to show it does not cause cancer in children?"
The answer is that no research ...
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