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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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Smallpox - The Sequel, Starring Bill Clinton
It was reported yesterday that researchers at a U.S. university have been asked to study the smallpox vaccine so that the U.S. could be prepared in the event of a terrorist attack.
The reported problem is that there is only a small supply of smallpox vaccine available which is known as Dryvax. ...
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Leading Cause of Death in The US - Chiropractors Did Not Tell Truth
The news has now been out for months, as many as 98,000 people per year are dying from medical error, which is ranked by their standards as the fifth leading cause of death in the United States. Hospital acquired infection or iatrogenic disease is closely trailing behind as the eighth leading cause ...
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Another Leading Cause of Death in the US
A Nando Media report released yesterday took a look at ways to decrease the incidence of hospital-acquired infection in the US. There has been much news regarding the 44,000 to 98,000 deaths per year due to medical error and here is a number to add to that figure.
According to the report, "infe...
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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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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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How Many Are Dying in Hospitals? - President Wants To Know
You may not see it on your local news but it comes across global news feeds daily - As many as 98,000 Americans each year are dying in US hospitals. What is often not mentioned is who is behind the news. There are massive opportunities for lawmakers and politicians to find a "solution" to this incre...
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A Chance To Cut - A Chance To Kill
Nando Times Media reported yesterday on the struggles hospitals are facing in attempts to decrease the number of deaths from medical error.
The report highlights "health care's dirty little secret: Medical mistakes kill somewhere between 44,000 and 98,000 hospitalized Americans a year."
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Jetliner plunges into the pacific - 88 feared dead
On January 31, 2000, an Alaska Airline commercial plane crashed off the coast of California. 88 persons are feared dead in the jetliner crash. Within hours of the crash, news stations across the planet where reporting on the tragedy. There is probably not a single person reading this article tha...
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Maybe ADHD Isn't the Real Problem
Nicholas Regush of ABCNEWS.com reports that "Attention Deficit" may not be the real problem.
According to the Drug Enforcement Agency, prescriptions for methylpenidate, know as Ritalin, increased more than 60 percent between 1990 and 1996.
Misdirected Attention?
Between 1990 and 19...
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Doctor visits by youngsters with ADHD up 90%
Medical doctors are seeing more visits of youngsters diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to a report published in the December issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
The proportion of youth visits to physicians that were for ADHD inc...
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Movement to End Medical Mistakes
President Clinton and congressional lawmakers are concerned with recent reports of deadly medical errors.
Fueled by last weeks report that medical mistakes kill thousands of Americans, President Clinton and congressional lawmakers are putting together plans to quickly reduce the number of dea...
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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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Survey: Consumers dislike drug ads
Side-effect warnings reduce effectiveness of drug ads, study finds. A Nando Times news article states, "You've seen the TV commercials for drugs that promise to relieve allergies, banish migraines, grow back your hair, prevent heart attacks, relieve herpes. Then comes the stern voice droning on ...
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Are We Over-Drugging American Boys?
According to a recent article on ABCNEWS.com, In 1998, nearly 5 million people in the United States - most of them children - were prescribed Ritalin. Production of Ritalin, the chief drug used to treat Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), is up 700% since 1990 and boys are diagnosed with ADD four ...
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