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Less Drugs, More Health For Seniors
If you have been watching the presidential debates you are aware of the issue regarding prescription drug benefits for seniors. Both parties want more drugs but is that what is really needed to improve the health of the elderly?
More drugs for the elderly, better access to those drugs, and ...
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"Women do not want to be on Hormonal Drugs"
By Madeline Behrendt, D.C.
A hormone storm is sweeping across the continents, touching one of our most precious lifecycles and tossing it into the churning currents of controversy and confusion. Women are in the thick of it, and while men can't own our experiences, they are affected through the...
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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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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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One in Five Have Problems With Prescriptions
A recent study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine finds that many patients are suffering from the side effects of prescription drugs.
It is estimated the three out of four patients visiting a medical doctor will leave with a prescription drug. The study sought to find out how many of t...
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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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Drugs, Side Effects, and Death
According to new reports, government uncovers too few of the injuries and deaths caused by prescription drug side effects.
Recent studies suggest that an estimated 2 million Americans are hospitalized annually from drug side effects, and 100,000 die.
Interestingly, the FDA does not req...
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Backpacks and Schoolyard Drugs 2007
by Daria Belov
The 2007 September Labor Day holiday is officially over and children across the United States are heading back to school. In the spirit of the school yard, we took a review of some school related articles posted to Planet Chiropractic during the past several years, and organized ...
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No Prescription Required
By Darrel Crain, DC
It's official: over half the insured adult population in this country is on drugs, prescription drugs.
Drug company executives weren't the only ones ecstatic to hear this news, giddy economists threw a week-long champagne party out on the sidewalks of Wall Street to cel...
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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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Medicine, Worms and Dirt
By Darrel Crain, DC
Your prescription is ready Mrs. Jones, fresh intestinal whipworm eggs straight from the pig!
This type of medicine may sound rather unorthodox, but scientists testing this unusual treatment on six human patients with inflammatory bowel disease found that it helped every...
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Idea of Farting and Soiled Pants Bothers Los Angeles Chiropractor
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
Doctors, it may be time to stock up on the citrus freshener.
A panel of scientists and doctors this week recommended that the Food and Drug Administration approve over-the-counter sales of a weight-loss pill known as orlistat, marketed in prescription form as Xeni...
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NSAIDs & Antibiotics Increasing Risk of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
Some of todays news briefs regarding NSAIDS or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs...
A study recently published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that using antibiotics more than 10 times during childhood or being a heavy user of non-steroidal anti-...
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The Hex of Drugs Like Celebrex
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
According to a recent study, the arthritis drug Celebrex does not protect ones stomach from dangerous bleeding ulcers as well as previously thought.
You've probably seen them on TV, Celebrex and two new similar anti-inflammatory drugs get lots of advertising time,...
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