Journal of Controversial Medical Claims articles from February 2002

Journal of Controversial Medical Claims archives from February 2002

Chiropractic medicine.
February 1, 2002... The National Association of Chiropractic Medicine (NACM) claims to be an advocate of health care consumers. The members of this association follow a scope of practice that adheres to a scientific basis for manipulative procedures and confine...

NACM and its argument with mainstream chiropractic health care.(National Association of Chiropractic Medicine)
February 1, 2002... Without question, the adjustment and manipulation or manipulative procedures of the spine and its adjacent articulations represent the basic form of chiropractic patient care. (1) Spinal manipulation is used by millions of patients each year...

Developments involving fibromyalgia.
February 1, 2002... The notion of fibromyalgia remains an issue of great contention. A few years ago in this journal, Rush and Ameis presented a thorough review of scientific knowledge at that time and offered a number of important conclusions. (1) They noted...

Treatment reduces risk of heart attack: reverses arterial plaque buildup.
February 1, 2002... Treatment with a combination of statin and niacin can slash the risk of a fatal or non-fatal heart attack or hospitalization for chest pain by 70 percent among patients who are likely to suffer heart attacks or death from coronary heart...

Lawyer tips.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Rheumatoid arthritis can be a devastating illness that can range in symptomology from body soreness (without visual physical manifestations of the illness) to swelling, redness, and obvious physical disfigurement at its worst. The disease can...

Lung transplants for CF patients. (Clinical Currents).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The second largest group of lung transplant recipients in the United States comprises patients with cystic fibrosis. Previously, the survival effects of transplantation on this group had not been measured. A recent study sought to determine...

Clinical trial of aptiganel. (Clinical Currents).
February 1, 2002... To date, tissue plasminogen activator remains the only thrombolytic agent approved in the United States for treating acute ischemic stroke, and it has limitations. A randomized controlled trial was conducted recently to determine whether...

Scientific exchange vs promotion of drugs. (Clinical Currents).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Pharmaceutical manufacturers often develop drug products that have multiple therapeutic uses. However, due to the high cost of clinical research and the lengthy FDA approval process, manufacturers often determine that obtaining FDA approval...

Metastatic renal-cell cancer. (Clinical Currents).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The value of nephrectomy in metastatic renal-cell cancer continues to be debated. Several nonrandomized studies imply that there is a higher rate of response to systemic therapy and longer survival in patients that have undergone nephrectomy....

Reflex sympathetic dystrophy. (Clinical Currents).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) syndrome, or complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) or "krips," as it is commonly known, refers to intense chronic pain, usually resulting from some type of trauma. In cases of RSD, the pain exceeds the level...

Biodynamic craniosacral therapy. (Clinical Currents).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Biodynamic craniosacral therapy is a spiritually based therapy, the purpose of which is to restore health and well being to the therapist and his or her clients. This therapy seeks to find the cause of distress and shift an individual's...