Reform Threatens Alternative Medicine
Friday 30th of July 2010 01:01:51 AM
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| We are the heads of two non-profit organizations - one of us liberal and the other conservative - who are concerned that the impending healthcare legislation will negatively impact holistic and natural medicine and limit the healthcare choices of the people who consume it. Because alternative medicine is highly effective in treating many of the chronic conditions which resist treatment by establishment medicine -from arthritis, heart disease, and chronic pain to insomnia and attention-deficit disorders - nearly 50 percent of Americans regularly use some type of alternative therapy, according to a study by the Journal of the American Medical Association.... |
CA: Chiropractic Board saga intensifies
Friday 30th of July 2010 01:01:51 AM
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| The Department of Consumer Affairs has assigned a manager with a long history of fixing troubled bureaucracies to begin the task of cleaning up the Board of Chiropractic Examiners. The board has been roiled by disclosures of impropriety and infighting for several weeks. Capitol Weekly also has learned that the former chairwoman of the board, Dr. Sharon Ufberg, was accused of practicing without a license while sitting on the board during 2001. The allegations were among those detailed in one of two lawsuits pending against board managers by current and former staff members. Reached by phone in New York, Ufberg... |
Chiropractic Adjustment Lowers Blood Pressure Among Hypertensive Patients (Says U Chicago MD)
Friday 30th of July 2010 01:01:51 AM
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| Chiropractic Adjustment Lowers Blood Pressure Among Hypertensive Patients The decrease was equal to taking two blood-pressure drugs at once. The results are published in the online March 2 issue of the Journal of Human Hypertension. According to lead author George Bakris, MD, director of the hypertension center at the University of Chicago Medical Center, unlike other vertebrae, which interlock one to the next, the Atlas (also known as C-1) relies solely upon soft tissue (muscles and ligaments) to maintain alignment; therefore is uniquely vulnerable to displacement. Displacement of C-1 can occur without pain and thus, often goes undetected and untreated.... |
CA: Board chief is fired after accusations (Chiropractic or Legal hanky panky?)
Friday 30th of July 2010 01:01:51 AM
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| SACRAMENTO — Shortly before she was fired from her job Friday, the executive director of a state board appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger accused its members of attempting to undermine a criminal prosecution of chiropractors and interfering with disciplinary actions against members of the profession. Catherine Hayes told the California Board of Chiropractic Examiners, which includes two friends from the governor's bodybuilding days, that it has been acting illegally and has deprived Californians of a strong regulatory agency that is supposed to protect the public. Hayes read her statement to board members, who then went into a closed session to... |
CA: Chiropractic panel leader apologizes (new Board Chief issues mea culpa)
Friday 30th of July 2010 01:01:51 AM
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| State Board of Chiropractic Examiners Chairman Richard Tyler issued a mea culpa Friday for the panel's questionable actions, even as the board refired its executive director and authorized a search for a permanent replacement. Acknowledging "gross errors in judgment," Tyler, appointed to the board by his longtime friend, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, began the meeting with a contrite statement reflecting on the board's actions in a meeting earlier this month. In that March 1 meeting, the board fired its executive director without due notice, ejected a deputy attorney general, endorsed a controversial procedure involving anesthesia and accredited a college despite the... |
Governor fuels board furor (criticized for saying chiropractic panel should represent the industry)
Friday 30th of July 2010 01:01:51 AM
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| Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger drew immediate criticism Thursday for declaring that the state's Board of Chiropractic Examiners should represent chiropractors despite the panel's mission statement of protecting the public. The Republican governor made the remark as he tried to distance himself from his own chiropractic appointees, including two of his earliest bodybuilding friends, after the board took questionable actions last week that consumer advocates say favor the chiropractic industry. "They run their board by themselves, independent of us," Schwarzenegger said after touring the San Joaquin County jail in French Camp to promote his prison plan. "We don't give them directions. What... |
CA: Chaos on chiropractic board (appointees, including ex-bodybuilding chums, accused of 'coup.')
Friday 30th of July 2010 01:01:51 AM
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| Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has handed control of the obscure Board of Chiropractic Examiners to appointees, including two friends from his bodybuilding days, who fired the executive director, ejected a deputy attorney general from a meeting and took other controversial actions in what a critic described as a "coup." --snip-- "It was a coup," said former board member Barbara Stanfield, who attended the March 1 meeting. "They said, 'This is what we're going to do,' and they did it." Stanfield said Schwarzenegger appointees to the board, including two-time Mr. Olympia Franco Columbu, have made clear in public meetings that they want... |
Doctors, Others Deride Chiropractic School
Friday 30th of July 2010 01:01:51 AM
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| TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) - Some Florida State University professors have been circulating a parody map showing the campus of the future, with a new Bigfoot Institute, a School of Astrology and a Crop Circle Simulation Laboratory. It's a not-so-subtle jab in a growing debate over a proposal to build a chiropractic college on this campus - the first such school at a public university in the United States. More than 500 professors, including the university's two Nobel laureates, have signed a petition opposing the school and a handful have even threatened to resign rather than teach alongside what they consider... |
Jim King Threatens FSU Funding if Chiropractic School is Defeated
Friday 30th of July 2010 01:01:51 AM
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| Faculty members say they are afraid to question the chiropractic school because they fear retribution from either top administrators or the powerful state lawmakers who support it. The atmosphere is grim, said Marc Freeman, a distinguished research professor in the biology department. "We feel as if something is being shoved down our throats that we don't want." The growing frustration comes just weeks before votes by FSU's board of trustees and the Florida Board of Governors that could decide the school's fate. If the school dies, professors should think about the consequences, state Sen. Jim King, an FSU graduate who... |
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