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MD's Go On Strike - Death Rates Drop
From the British Medical Journal comes an article titled, "Doctors' strike in Israel may be good for health"
Medical doctors in Israel went on strike in March, 2000 and according to the article, "Death rates have dropped considerably in most of the country since physicians in public hospita...
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Vaccine Hot-Shot News
From the Bergen Record comes an article titled: "CDC says vaccine to be mercury-free"
According to the article, federal health officials notified parents that "a preservative with high amounts of mercury is being discontinued in childhood vaccines."
The preservative in question is thim...
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Michigan Making Headlines - Ritalin Update
From The Wellness Report
and The Michigan Chiropractic Council
Back in April of 1998 the Wellness Report featured information about Michigan ranking third in the nation for Ritalin use - 56% higher than the national average. The October 1998 issue told about the children, newborn through age...
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Antibiotics Don't Help
From Yahoo! Health comes an article titled, "Antibiotics Not Helpful for Most Respiratory Tract Infections in Children"
The article states that antibiotic treatment for "virus-caused respiratory tract infections" continues to be practiced by medical doctors despite the "evidence that such t...
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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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Misleading Medical Reports and the Media
From MSNBC comes an article titled: "Medical reporting misleading -- Media often overlook drug side effects, conflicts of interest"
According to the article, a recent study found that in mass media health coverage, "many news stories on drugs fail to report side effects or researchers' fina...
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Autism and Mercury Relationship
The following is testimony from a recent ACIP meeting.
Thank you to Dr. Rick Hodish for supplying this report.
My name is Sallie Bernard. I live in Summit, New Jersey. I am the president and CEO of a market research company and a board member of the Cure Autism Now Foundation, the largest pr...
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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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Get sick - or get a clue
Just yesterday we reported on ADHD in the news and commented on an article titled: "Strep Infection Possibly Linked to Attention-Deficit Disorder"
I commented that, "On one side, one may suggest increased use of antibiotics or maybe even a vaccine to hopefully prevent the strep infections o...
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ADHD in the news
From Yahoo Health News and MSNBC Health
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released new guidelines on Monday aimed at helping physicians diagnose attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.(ADHD)
There has been much news regarding ADHD and it's over diagnoses and misdiagnoses. There ...
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Michigan Chiropractic Council Comments On Chiropractic & Children Article
Dear Doctors,
Be prepared to get angry when you read the following article from Reuters. (Link to study available below) What really raised my ire was the fact that the basis for the title had nothing to do with dangerous outcomes from chiropractic care but because so many children are seei...
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Pro Vaccination & Readers Digest Canada
The May issue of Readers Digest Canada features an article by Dr. Richard Goldbloom titled: Childhood Vaccinations: What Every Parent Should Know
From VRAN - Vaccination Risk Awareness Network (Canada)
The pro-vaccinators are worried by the growing loss of public confidence in vaccinat...
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Vaccines: Does Your Child Really Need Them?
The following article was made available to us via PROVE
(Parents Requesting Open Vaccine Education)
The article is in print on the newsstands in the April 2000 issue of Let's Live Magazine. It is suggested you consider buying a copy to share with friends and to support the magazine for prin...
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Saying No To Drugs
April 3 - MSNBC reports on a study stating, "Pediatricians urge no drugs for respiratory infections."
The report suggests that "pediatricians are often pressured to prescribe unnecessary antibiotics for respiratory infections" and that those pressures often come from parents and from schools ch...
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Medical Errors Now Fifth Leading Cause of Death in the US
Move over hospital-acquired infections, medical error has got you beat in the US.
Today's news feeds are reporting "Medical errors are the fifth leading cause of death in the US and cost about $29 billion a year." This is based on information in a recent Institute of Medicine report. Officials ...
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