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1.5 Million Americans Harmed Each Year by Medication Mistakes
Planet Chiropractic News
A report out this week from the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) estimates that 1.5 million Americans are being injured each year as a result of prescribing mistakes related to medications. The errors are costing more than $3.5 billion each year. The report also suggests ...
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U.S. GAO seeks more info on drug errors
The General Accounting Office is the investigative arm of Congress. GAO's mission is to help the Congress oversee federal programs and operations to assure accountability to the American people.
A two-year study by the U.S. GAO has concluded that adverse drug events, complications or even d...
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Medical Mistakes - Still a Major Killer?
It has been one year since we reported with the article "Thousands are dying yearly from medical errors" which was based on a U.S. Institute of Medicine report regarding the number of deaths and injuries due to medical error that occur in the U.S. each year.
Remember the news?
MSNBC Head...
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More Over-prescribing of Ritalin Reported
We have reported previously about the number of children being prescribed ritalin that have not met any type of diagnostic criteria. We have also reported previously on the many articles siting overuse and abuse of stimulants such as ritalin.
From Fox News comes an article titled, "Controve...
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HMO launches ad campaign regarding medical mistakes
Nando Times reported that an HMO group has launched an ad campaign on medical errors hoping to keep Americans harmed by bad medical care the right to sue HMOs.
The commercials are aimed to "shift the focus on protecting patients to eliminating medical errors instead of settling patient disputes...
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3,000 medical mistakes and mishaps
Nando media and associated press report that Federal investigators have documented almost 3,000 medical mistakes and mishaps in less than two years at veterans hospitals around the United States. More than 700 patients have died in those reported cases.
This report is the result of a new pol...
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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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Unlicensed Drugs Being Prescribed To Children
The January 8th issue of the British Medical Journal reports that two thirds of children in a recent study, in European hospitals have received unlicensed drugs.
The practice of prescribing drugs that have not been approved for use in children is widespread, European researchers report. The...
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Study says ADHD May Be Over-Diagnosed in Children
planetc1.com chiropractic news
Norfolk, Va. - Doctors may be over-diagnosing some groups of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and over prescribing drugs to treat the condition, according to a new study published Wednesday.
ADHD has been estimated to affect 3% to 5% of ...
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Most Kids Ear Infections Healing without Antibiotics
by Michael Dorausch, Chiropractor
A recent study published in a September issue of JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical Association) found that most kids with ear infections do not need antibiotics, but they get them anyway.
It is estimated that up to 98% of medical doctors treat ear ...
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Antibiotics Found Useless for Most Cases of Bronchitis
by Michael Dorausch, DC
planetc1.com news staff
Virginia: There is no evidence antibiotics do any good for the great majority of patients suffering with acute bronchitis, and medical doctors should cease routinely prescribing them, according to recent reports by university researchers.
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How To Kill Your Chiropractic Practice
By Dr. Steven Visentin, D.C.
Chiropractors -- Review the list below of the top ways we hold ourselves back in practice and ask: Are you making any of these practice-killing mistakes? Have you been making them for years? Find out if you are the "major subluxation" in practice fulfillment and de...
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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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Letting Go and Letting your Chiropractic Life Grow
By Sharon Gorman, Doctor of Chiropractic
Chiropractor news features content intended specifically for the doctor of chiropractic. Many of the articles on this website (in this particular category) focus on the lifestyle, motivation and discipline related to being an "in the field" chiropractor....
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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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