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The Value of Flu Shots
By Darrel Crain, DC
My grandfather used to joke, "Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'." His mathematical jest wasn't about the flu vaccine, but it pretty well sums up the findings of a new study about flu shots published in the December 2008 Archives of Internal Medicine. Apparently you can cut...
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1918 Influenza Epidemic and Chiropractic Care
Historical Chiropractic News
Editors Note: The information provided here was forwarded to Planet Chiropractic by a chiropractor in Texas. Far too many people (including chiropractors) are not aware of historical events that took place during the 1917 - 1918 Spanish Flu years, which involved ch...
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Politics, Profits & Pandemic Fear Mongering
by Barbara Loe Fisher
Are you grabbing your face mask, stocking up on food and Tamiflu, locking your doors and keeping your TV tuned to the news to find out just how bad the "swine flu pandemic" really is going to get? While Americans are being scared to death, few are noticing how much of the...
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DC Thots on Swine Flu Pandemic Planning
By Darrel Crain, DC
It's a flu-for-all out there. War has been declared on the swine flu by governments around the world. The H1N1 swine flu virus is most notable for its tendency to be drearily lackluster, tame and below average as influenza goes, but on June 11, 2009 the World Health Organiz...
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Profits in the schoolyard: Apples, Pears & Soda Pop
By Darrel Crain, Chiropractor
"Yes, as a matter of fact I did attend junior high school many years ago," I told my son. "Wow, dinosaurs still roamed the earth back then, didn't they Dad?" he smirked.
"I'll have you know we even had a vending machine on campus!" I said this to impress him w...
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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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Leaving for College
By Darrel Crain, DC
This week, my son John graduated from high school. There we sat in the stadium bleachers, my wife and I, crying, laughing, and feeling every shade of emotion in between. We were surrounded by hundreds of other proud parents, siblings, aunts, uncles and grandmothers of every ...
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A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory
By Darrel Crain, D.C.
"Doc, I'm pretty sure I need some of those big green pills, you know, like the ones on television."
"Really? What are your symptoms?"
"Well, I feel like I'm the guy in the TV commercial standing next to the telephone. I can't pick it up because I'm scared to deat...
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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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Stress Management and the Joys of Freeway Driving
By Darrel Crain, DC
Stress, Stress Relief & Stress Management
"It is generally believed that biological organisms require a certain amount of stress in order to maintain their well-being." So, according to Taber's medical dictionary stress is good for us. But what is meant by 'a certain amou...
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Placebos: Accept no substitutes
By Darrel Crain, DC
"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease," Voltaire noted with intuitive precision.
Occasionally, the government asks us for help in its thankless task to reduce the unintended collateral damage caused by good-hearted, but busy...
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US life expectancy falls below that of most wealthy nations
By Darrel Crain, D.C.
Long may you live!
American medicine was publicly flogged recently because life expectancy in our country falls below that of most wealthy nations. This is totally unfair. "The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can," according to Montaigne, and he ...
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Avoid Pain At All Costs - Chiropractic Monday Message
By Sharon Gorman, DC
"To avoid pain at all costs forces us to reject half the lessons life can teach." - Jan Pishok
Pain hurts - no kidding. Who would want it? We spend our lives listening to people who are trying to avoid physical pain. I tell patients all the time that pain is there for ...
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Bird flu up your nose
By Darrel Crain, DC
Bird Flu Up Your Nose! That is the name for an avian flu nasal spray vaccine I just came up with. If you know someone in the vaccine industry, please inform them I am willing to sell the name for the right price.
Speaking of the bird flu, there is good news, and there i...
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Pre-Medicine for Pre-Problems - a Chiropractic Report
By Darrel Crain, DC
You have got to love the pharmaceutical companies. Once again, they have demonstrated their genuine concern for our health. They are so concerned they are actually "pre-concerned"! You may be asking yourself, what does this mean? It seems that scientists working for the phar...
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