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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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DC and MD Communications
Yahoo News: Family Physicians, Chiropractors Do Not Share Info
Based on a recent report in the Archives of Family Medicine, it was found that chiropractors and medical practitioners are not communicating when it comes to patient care.
According to the article and the report, it was found t...
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More Ritalin And Prozac Being Prescribed
From Yahoo News comes an article titled: "Ritalin And Prozac Combination Used by More Children"
The article is based on the results from a study that show evidence of an increasing number of Ritalin and Prozac prescriptions, as well as "various combinations of similar stimulants and antidepress...
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Doctors of Chiropractic -- Scope Expansion into Drugs

Letter to the Governor
Governor Frank Keating, of the State of Oklahoma
Dear Governor Keating:
This morning I became aware of the proposal to amend the Chiropractic scope of practice to include the use of pharmaceuticals in the State of Oklahoma. This, if passed would be a mistak...
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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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More Drugs For Tots - Not!
Many news sources are reporting today that in the US, federal government officials have planned to inform parents and teachers about the risks of using psychiatric drugs such as Ritalin and Prozac on preschoolers. (Notice the trend here?)
Also according to reports, the Food and Drug Administrat...
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Medicine Gives Us A Longer Life?
By Dr. Jeff Ptak
According to US Gov't statistics, if you live to be 40, your chances of living to be 70 or 80 are about identical to a 40 year old who lived 200 years ago. That is right. Said a different way, if you got to see your 40th birthday in 1800, your chances of living to a ripe old ag...
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Psychiatric Drugs And Our Children
The week's March 6th issue of U.S. News & World Report features a report on the use of psychiatric drugs in children. The article is available on this weeks news stands or by visiting http://www.usnews.com (save the pages for offline viewing as they will probably be removed next week.)
Although...
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Drugging Our Children
It's all over today's news; toddlers are being given medications not approved for their use.
Planet Chiropractic has been reporting about the increase in the use of psychiatric drugs among children for some time now, the news we report today is quite disturbing and should concern everyone.
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Ritalin as Last Resort?
Colorado Discourages ADHD Drugs - Educators Buck Treatment Trend

Jillian Lloyd, Christian Science Monitor - Colorado’s education board is now urging schools to rely more on effective classroom discipline and less on medication for unruly kids, and the move has catapulted the state to the for...
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Flu Vaccine: Stay Out of My Womb!
Commentary by Dawn Richardson
Pregnant women everywhere know the feeling of making it to the milestone of their second trimester. For most, queasiness starts to subside, energy returns in spurts, and of course there is that indescribable feeling ofbecoming aware of your developing baby's movement...
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Hospital Patients Worry They'll Get Wrong Drug
Patients are more concerned about receiving the wrong medication in the hospital than about pain or cost of treatment, according to a new study. The telephone survey of 1,008 adults was conducted by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), a professional organization that mainly rep...
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Pain is Inevitable; Suffering is Optional
By Darrel Crain, DC
Pain is a four-letter word. It is an experience said to be pretty much common to all of humanity. “Not to have felt pain is not to have been human,” according to the old Jewish Proverb. Yeah, right. I think I speak for the majority of humanity when I say, “How about we just ...
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