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‘Ghostly’ Drug May Help Fight RA

By John Wiens DC|January 29, 2010|Research|

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 it drift through cell walls. The other part mimics a chemical signal missing in the macrophage immune cells that build up inside joints afflicted by rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Because they are missing this signal, macrophages in RA joints don’t die off as they are supposed to do. They live on, destroying bone and inflaming the joint, says Harris Perlman, PhD, associate professor of medicine at Chicago’s Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

“In RA, there is this persistent inflammation that never shuts down. Part of the reason is these macrophages are missing a protein they need to die off,” Perlman tells WebMD. “So this drug says OK, let’s replace this protein. Let’s bring back the death pathway.”

Perhaps because normal cells aren’t clinging to life like the zombie macrophages involved in RA, the drug doesn’t kill normal macrophages. The drug was not toxic to mice.

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Patients in Medicare Demonstration Project Give Their Chiropractors High Marks

By John Wiens DC|January 26, 2010|News, Patient Satisfaction|

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 the study gave their doctor of chiropractic a level of 8 or higher. What’s more, 56 percent of those patients rated their chiropractor with a perfect 10.

Contributing to that satisfaction was the attention given to patients’ needs and the accessibility of chiropractic care. Patients reported that doctors of chiropractic listened to them carefully and spent sufficient time with them. Some 95 percent said they had to wait no longer than one week for appointments. (more…)

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Court finds chiropractic negligence in manipulation

By John Wiens DC|January 21, 2010|Legal Action|

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 and will decide later what compensation to award Abe Gallant, who says he had to leave his $80,000-a-year job because of the damage.

The decision follows a series of public inquiries and inquests that have blamed cervical manipulation for strokes, some of them fatal, and the filing of a $500-million class action suit in Alberta that targeted the allegedly dangerous chiropractic therapy. (more…)

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WHO to examine its H1N1 response

By John Wiens DC|January 18, 2010|Flu|

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 former chief medical officer of health, referred to it as a “dud pandemic.”

The European concern is that WHO may have overstated the dangers of the pandemic because of pressure from pharmaceutical companies that produce swine flu vaccines. (more…)

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World Health Organization wants global tax on Internet, banking

By John Wiens DC|January 18, 2010|News|

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 tax on Internet activity and simple everyday tasks such as conducting online bill payments on your bank’s website, according to Fox News. The sole purpose for these billions of dollars is for development of drugs, research, development and manufacturing capabilities in developing nations. (more…)

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Elysium to Enter $7 Billion Chiropractic Market With Acquisition of Internet Domain Name Chiropractor.net

By John Wiens DC|December 18, 2009|News|

Aggressive Timeline Set to Launch New Local Chiropractic Directory
Source Yahoo Finance

Elysium Internet, Inc., a next generation Local Internet advertising and digital media Company, today announced that it has agreed on terms to acquire the one word generic Internet domain name Chiropractor.net for its newest online destination.

Elysium Internet CEO Scott Gallagher commented, “We’re pleased to have the opportunity to acquire such a high quality, one word, generic domain name as Chiropractor.net. With the Internet fast becoming the first stop for consumers doing research, a domain name such as this one will dramatically increase our exposure and naturally, our credibility among Internet users. We plan to launch our newest local Internet destination via the new domain as soon as possible. There are over 50,000 Chiropractors in the United States and more than half of them are self-employed. Compare that to only 17,000 Podiatrists in the entire country and you can see the opportunity is massive.”

30% of the US population aged 18 and older have used a Chiropractor. According to the US Department of Labor the Job employment of Chiropractors is expected to increase 20% over the next ten years. Other studies suggest that more than 20 Million Americans will seek a Chiropractic care next year alone with costs related to lower back pain estimated to be $60 Billion.

Gallagher continued, “We’re excited to be entering a market of this size where our performance-based local patient acquisition program will have such a major impact. We expect the new online destination to be launched within days and are in active negotiations with several highly experienced Chiropractors to serve as advisor’s to Chiropractor.net.”

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About John Wiens DC

‘Ghostly’ Drug May Help Fight RA

Patients in Medicare Demonstration Project Give Their Chiropractors High Marks

Court finds chiropractic negligence in manipulation

WHO to examine its H1N1 response

World Health Organization wants global tax on Internet, banking

Elysium to Enter $7 Billion Chiropractic Market With Acquisition of Internet Domain Name Chiropractor.net