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A recent report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) revealed that many medical doctors have direct, personal knowledge of an impaired or incompetent physician in their workplaces but won’t report them. The researchers, led by Catherine DesRoches of Harvard Medical School, surveyed 1,891 practicing US doctors in order to “understand physicians’ [...]

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When DD Palmer called our profession “chiropractic” — combining the Greek words cheir (hand) and praxis (action) — he couldn’t have chosen a better name. While there are a few doctors who substitute mechanical devices for their hands, even those practitioners have some hands-on work with patients — palpation, adjusting or just placing the hands [...]

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As most of my readers know, I regularly point out biased claims from organized medicine (often parroted by the mainstream press) that chiropractic is not supported by research. That’s why it’s always welcome news when studies are published that DO point out research proving the effectiveness of chiropractic. The latest, a report published by Australia’s [...]

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Thanks to computerized techniques, today’s Chiropractors can gather a wide range of data for neurological activity, Dr. Terry A. Rondberg, DC, explains.

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Subluxation has a brain component. Terry A. Rondberg, DC, asks why this relationship is too often ignored, to the peril of the profession.