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- Nearly half of all Americans -- 48% -- took at least one
prescription drug
- Among those 60 and older, 88.4% took at least one Rx medication, as
did nearly a quarter of those under 12 (22.4%)
- Those who use two or more prescription drugs rose
from 25% to 31% over the decade from 1999 to 2008, and
- those using five
or more jumped from 6% to 11%.
- More than three-quarters of those 60 and older used two or
more prescription drugs and 36.7% took five or more.
- "Overall, total spending on prescription drugs in the U.S. was $234
billion in 2008 -- more than double the amount spent in 1999, the
researchers said."
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Dr. Richard Edwards, a chiropractor from Oklahoma, is the US's third bouble hand transplant recipient. Read more in this article.
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The Insurance Committee of the TCA reports that the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) reported
several items of interest, including there have been 59 complaints year to date with workers compensation and have
resulted in an additional $15,000 paid out to doctors of chiropractic.
Texas Department of Insurance has a
simple web complaint form for all forms of complaints. JUST CLICK HERE.
The Insurance Committee notes that "If you have a complaint, they need
to be filed to get them on record. This is something that the TDI is
requesting from us, and not something we are making up. It only takes a
minute to file your complaint. You need to file them by the dozens if
you have that many complaints." They
certainly don't hesitate to complain to your regulatory agency.
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The TBCE Enforcement committee is scheduled to meet 9-14-10 at 9:00 am...
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TCA District 8 recently announced that TCA
District 8 has elected Dr. Shawn Isdale to serve
as the State Director of District 8.
At the meeting "more than ten" stood to respond to a challenge to raise funds for the legal defense fund, and all of those
pledges, and more, have already been received.
Further, District 8 issued a challenge to other TCA Districts: "District 8 just
raised [nearly $20,000] with more pledged to be coming in. I'd like the
'big boys' Districts 4, 5 and 11 to double our pledges within this month...beat us for a good cause!"
Will the chiropractic doctors, vendors, patients, and families accept the challenge? Direct donations may be made by CLICKING THIS LINK.
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The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) had ...recently hired Executive Vice President William K. O’Connell. Learn more about him in this article.
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The past
12 months have been good - very good - for the chiropractic profession
in terms of data supporting the efficacy of chiropractic care. This report, from the Chirocode Institute, reports on several of the most significant pro-chiropractic studies...
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Half of patients with early spondylarthropathy -- and particularly men
with active ankylosing spondylitis -- also have low bone mineral
density (BMD)...
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The mind-body activity of tai chi improved the symptoms of fibromyalgia
without any safety concerns," and that "compared with an educational and stretching intervention, tai chi
led to a greater overall improvement in fibromyalgia after 12 weeks..
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Dr. Patrick Massey of the Chicago Daily Herald shares a column and points out several interesting facts:
- "Nontraditional" medicine is the most common form of medical therapy used for back pain.
- The most common "nontraditional" therapy used was chiropractic, and it achieved the best response among patients.
- Over half of the patients using "nontraditional" medicine also made use of traditional medicine.
- Traditional medicine is more expensive than "nontraditional" medicine.
- Patients want the best of ALL therapies regardless of their origins.
When a healing art such as chiropractic is so widely used; when it achieves such great success; when its education is the same or greater than "traditional medicine"; when it must integrate its care and management of patients with "traditional" or mainstream medicine should it really be considered "alternative medicine?" Should it really be considered an "outsider" to "traditional" medicine? Or should it be viewed as a part of "mainstream medicine", albeit a minority member.
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Nearly 100 million children in China
will be vaccinated against measles this month to help eliminate the
disease, a leading cause of avoidable death and disability in developing
countries, the WHO said..."
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Older patients account for a majority of physician office visits,
which increasingly involve specialists who treat chronic conditions,
according to government statistics. This article reports on some of the pertinent statistics.
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A Democratic senator and a Republican
governor are both attempting to exempt their
respective states from following certain provisions of the new
healthcare reform law, signaling what could emerge as a trend of states
trying to distance themselves from the federal health reform act.
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Unlike the usual figures reported during the national health reform debate and the promotion of "tort reform", new studies report that the costs associated with medical malpractice are roughly 2.4% of a
more than $2.3-trillion tab. "It represents a
small fraction of total health care spending. Yet in absolute dollars,
the amount is not trivial."
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An estimated 30 million women
will be helped by the new health reform law over the next 10 years "While women are just as likely as men to be uninsured, they are more
likely [than men] to have trouble buying coverage on the individual
market. Women
seeking health insurance policies on the individual market were charged
as much as 84% more than men for similar policies.
Nearly 17 million U.S. women -- 18% -- were uninsured in 2008.
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"...US Senators released S. 510, a bipartisan agreement
called the FDA [US Food and Drug Administration] Food Safety
Modernization Act. This move guarantees full debate on the bill this
September."
"...Senators allege that the bill
would empower the US Food and Drug Administration to order product
recalls, increase the frequency of plant inspections, and require all
facilities that manufacture, process, pack, or hold food to have
preventive control plans in place to prevent adulteration of food
products."
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Change
Request (CR) 6874 clarifies instructions for processing claims by
carriers and A/B Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) that are
submitted by Medicare beneficiaries.
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When submitting Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) claims
electronically, the Primary Payer’s Allowed Amount should be greater
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A former Independence chiropractor has won a $6.3 million judgment in
his case against former members of the Missouri State Board of
Chiropractic Examiners for suspending his license. In his case against "the show me" state, it appears that the state board was unable to show good cause for their actions.
The 20 year-old case stems
from accusations that the chiropractor had convinced a Mennonite farmer with AIDS
that he was cured and could start a family. The doctor has insisted that
he made no such claim. The patient’s wife and mother-in-law have
contended
otherwise. The
chiropractic board suspended his license for two years. Ultimately a court said he had not been given access to key pieces of
evidence such as a religious anointing
ceremony
at the patient’s church held in hopes of curing him.
The chiropractor filed suit against the former
board members to collect legal fees and losses to his business.
That case went to trial last week. The
jury awarded damages of $6,284,759. Ordinarily, members of such boards are immune from civil suits for their
official duties, but there is an exception when a court finds they
acted with gross negligence.
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The Governor of Illinois recently appointed a chiropractic physician
to the Illinois State Board of Health, and appointed a second
chiropractor to the Illinois Medical Disciplinary Board.
The newly created Chiropractic Physician position on the State Board of
Health position was created last year after Illinois Chiropractic Society initiated legislation
into law adding the position to the State Board of Health and the Illinois legislature passed it.
The the Medical Disciplinary Board in Illinois has had a chiropractor serving on it for at least the last 8 years.
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The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation
(TDI-DWC) has made, in addition to the English and Spanish versions, a Chinese and Vietnamese version of the notice
included with the DWC Form-069, Report of Medical Evaluation.
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Parker College of Chiropractic has awarded three chiropractic research
grants of $4,000 each. The grant recipients include Cleveland
Chiropractic College, University of Kansas Medical Center, Southern
California University of Health Sciences, and Osher Clinical Center at
Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Read more about the grants in this article.
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Texas Chiropractic College (TCC) has signed an articulation agreement
with Lee College so that their students who earn 90 undergraduate credit hours and
maintain a minimum grade point average of 2.5 overall, including a 2.5
in specific science prerequisite courses, will automatically qualify for
TCC admission.
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The president of Erchonia Medical recently joined the faculty, staff,
students and administrators of Texas Chiropractic College (TCC) to
officially kick off the grand opening of the Erchonia Laser Healthcare
Center at TCC’s Moody Health Center (MHC). Erchonia Medical generously donated several of their lasers and also the
funds needed to expand and renovate the rehab facility.
The lasers will be used by doctors and their interns at TCC's
outpatient clinic, MHC. Lasers are commonly used to treat pain in both
acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions.
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Chiropractors are making a quiet, but significant contribution to
our nation's health. Few people outside of our profession
know how much public health work we do every day in chiropractic
practice. And how would they know? Chiropractors tend to speak 'chiro-ese.'"
"...we would be doing our profession a huge favor if we
learned and used the language of health when speaking about what we do.
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There is no
alternative medicine. There is only scientifically proven,
evidence-based medicine supported by solid data or unproven medicine,
for which scientific evidence is lacking. There are three piles:- You have a test or treatment that has itself been tested and found to be safe and effective. Use it; pay for it.
- You have a test or treatment that has been found to be unsafe or ineffective. Don't use it; don't pay for it.
- You
have a test or treatment that is scientifically plausible, meaning not
preposterous. Test it AND then put it into one of the other two piles."
This opinion from the M.D. perspective offers an interesting point of view--there is "only scientifically proven, evidence-based medicine" or "unproven medicine, for which scientific evidence is lacking."
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Guest Editor Dr. Clem Martin shares his perspective on chiropractic.
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