Chiropractic and Stroke Incidence The Chiro.Org Blog Recent reports of individuals suffering strokes proximal to receiving chiropractic care are sensationalized by the media all out of proportion to their actual frequency. Although medicine openly admits that tens of thousands die needlessly from medical care, even from things as innocous as venipuncture, that doesn’t excuse chiropractors [...]

When you want to find something online, it can be overwhelming to get thousands of responses. A typical example is a search for the term “chiropractic” on Google. You will get 14,200,000 responses, in no particular order. Who’s got the time to weed through that? That’s why something called Boolian Logic can help you get [...]

Use the slider at the Genetic Science Learning Center to view a stunning example of scale. Some cells are visible to the unaided eye The smallest objects that the unaided human eye can see are about 0.1 mm long. That means that under the right conditions, you might be able to see an ameoba proteus, [...]

Study Shows Molecule Can Infiltrate Immune Cells to Treat Rheumatoid Arthritis Source WebMD Jan. 28, 2010 – A ghostly “suicide” drug wafts into immune cells in joints, making the cells self-destruct and reducing rheumatoid arthritis in mice. The drug, technically a BH3 mimetic dubbed TAT-BH3, is a man-made molecule. One part of the molecule lets [...]

Respected Researcher Validates Chiropractic Standard of Care and Safety The Chiro.Org Blog Thanks to ACA News for access this material. “The most recent research (Neck Pain Task Force Report of the Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010, a study sanctioned by the United Nations and the World Health Organization) indicates neck manipulation is a safe and [...]

Source ACA Online According to long-awaited results from a congressionally mandated pilot project testing the feasibility of expanding chiropractic services in the Medicare program, patients have a high rate of satisfaction with the care they receive from doctors of chiropractic. When asked to rate their satisfaction on a 10-point scale, 87 percent of patients in [...]

Source Tom Blackwell, National Post A new court ruling has again called into question a widely used but controversial chiropractic treatment, concluding that a Newfoundland practitioner made a patient deaf in one ear and caused other debilitating injuries by performing a neck manipulation on him. The judge in the civil suit found the chiropractor negligent [...]

Intractable Migraine Headaches During Pregnancy The Chiro.Org Blog You may enjoy reading this Case Study, published recently by Joel Alcantara, D.C., the research director for the ICPA (International Chiropractic Pediatric Association). A 24 yr-old pregnant patient presented with chronic migraine headaches, which she had since age of 12. Previous care included osteopathy, physical therapy, medications [...]

Source CBC News The World Health Organization will review accusations it overstated the risks of the H1N1 virus. The most recent complaints about WHO’s handling of the pandemic came from the Council of Europe, a political forum, where last week parliamentarian Wolfgang Wodarg called H1N1 a “false pandemic.” In November 2009, Dr. Richard Schabas, Ontario’s [...]

Source Digital Journal The United Nation’s World Health Organization called for governments around the world to impose a global consumer tax on things like Internet activity and paying bills online. In order to raise tens of billions of dollars, the UN’s World Health Organization is urging governments around the world to institute a global consumer [...]

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Medscape just published and interesting article, titled: “Trashed on the Internet: What Should You Do?”. Business rating websites like Angie’s List flourished during the early commercializing of the Internet, but recently websites that rate doctor’s performance have sprung up.

A new study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry revealed a direct correlation between diet and depression. Most earlier studies on diet and depression focused primarily on individual nutrients rather than on overall diet. That’s what makes this new study so interesting. These researchers defined 2 primary dietary patterns: “whole food oriented” (heavily loaded [...]

In Support of Chiropractic (and Maintenance) Care The Chiro.Org Blog Although I prefer the term “stabilizing care”, maintenance care remains a controversial topic, at least with insurance providers and the science buffs who claim that only randomized trials are “proof”. I invite you to read Ron Rupert, D.C,.’s article “Maintenance Care: Health Promotion Services Administered [...]

More Bad News For Medical Patients The Chiro.Org Blog Medical Training For Musculoskeletal Conditions is Inadequate From Harvard Medical School in the U.S. to medical schools in Europe, medical education related to musculoskeletal conditions is inadequate. A 2009 survey tested physician’s knowledge related to simple low back pain management [1]. The average survey score of [...]

As search engines have gotten more sophisticated, it has gotten harder to find what your looking for, if you can’t remember the specific name of a group. You may enjoy reviewing these pages, as they are the most complete collection of organizations and groups compiled on the Net: Share this article: Recommend on Facebook Share [...]

I probably spend more time surfing the web than I should (hehehe), but today I was pleased to find a number of websites that link to us as “supersites” (Palmer College), or as a leading Alt-Med resource (Online Nursing Degree Guide). Share this article: Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to [...]

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