Chiropractors to Keep our Veterans Healthy Act

California Rep. Bob Filner has introduced vitally important legislation, HR 1471, the “Better Access to Chiropractors to Keep our Veterans Healthy Act (BACK Veterans Health Act),” which would provide for urgently needed reforms in the way veteran beneficiaries of the US Department of Veterans Affairs can access chiropractic services.
This important legislation would:
Provide for direct access [...]

Local chiropractors help make holidays brighter for Indian reservation

When it comes to making it a happier holiday at a Montana indian reservation, three local chiropractor’s can say, “i’ve got your back!”
Tthe presents are piling up at Freedlund Chiropractic in Winnebago. And they’re earmarked for the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. It’s the second straight year that about 30 midwestern chripractors try to spread holiday [...]

Nutrition pioneer recognized with award

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Jenny Lee, Vancouver Sun
Published: Saturday, November 03, 2007
Victoria’s Dr. Abram Hoffer, 89, has won the inaugural Dr. Rogers Prize for Excellence in Complementary and Alternative Medicine for his work using nutrition and vitamins to treat disease.
The $250,000 award, [...]

Acupuncture for Mds: Programs of Study

Friday, 07 September 2007

Today, there are advanced educational programs and continuing education courses in acupuncture for MDs.  A variety of practicing physicians may choose to enroll in any number of these acupuncture for MDs training courses to further the scope of available healthcare services or to simply enhance treatment options to patients.  Medical healthcare givers and [...]

Things to Try Before Getting Back Surgery on a Herniated Disc

What to try before you have back surgery on your herniated disc
If you or someone you care for is due for back surgery on a herniated disc, then this may be the most important letter you ever read.
Here’s why…Going straight in for back surgery on a  herniated disc   without taking some crucial steps to prepare [...]

Anti-alternative “Quackbusters” Have Giant Court Losses on Two Continents: Holland, Pennsylvania & California Courts Rule Against Them

PRESS RELEASE:
Recent rulings in Amsterdam, Pennsylvania and the Supreme Court of California are heavy blows to the Quackwatch anti-chiropractic and anti-alternative medicine organizations.
After years of being labeled a”quack,” defamed and ridiculed professionally, ” Dr. Maria Sickesz won a great victory in Amsterdam, Holland early June 2007.
The Netherlands Appeals Court ordered the “Vereniging tegen [...]

Exercise is Good for Good Cholesterol

Forty minutes of aerobic exercise done three times a week produces a small but real increase in high density lipoprotein (HDL), otherwise known as “good cholesterol,” according to a study published in the May 28 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. Increased HDL is good, since it aids in the removal of an artery-clogging [...]

FDA seeks comments on regulating “CAM products”

A few weeks ago, I commented on the increased action by the US FDA against unapproved drugs that have been used for decades but were never subjected to today’s formal framework of preclinical and clinical safety and efficacy trials (most recent action here).
Over the last couple of months, FDA has been creating a bit of [...]

Canadian philosopher wins $1.5 million U.S. prize

McGill University professor Charles Taylor, a leading philosopher who argues modern societies must reconnect with their spiritual side, has won the $1.5-million U.S. Templeton Prize, the world’s largest cash award given to an individual.
Taylor, 75, follows in the steps of Mother Teresa, Dr. Billy Graham and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, previous recipients of the prize, endowed by [...]

Traditional cures alive and well

Aileen McCabe, CanWest News Service
Published: Wednesday, July 12, 2006
SHANGHAI – When the Chinese have a medical complaint, only about 30 per cent of them go to their traditional healers for help.
It is usually for a chronic problem like asthma, too, not an emergency.
If they break a leg, the Chinese are more likely than not to [...]