Chiropractors and the AMA.

The Ama and Chiropractic

The State and Territory Competition Policy Reform Acts of 1995 applied the competitive conduct rules to Australian professions, including the medical profession, for the first time. The competitive conduct rules are basically the prohibitions on restrictive trading practices contained in Part IV of the Trade Practices Act. As the medical profession was effectively sheltered from the operation o...

Lethal and amanitin-resistance mutations in the Caenorhabditis elegans ama-1 and ama-2 genes.

Mutants of Caenorhabditis elegans resistant to alpha-amanitin have been isolated at a frequency of about 1.6 x 10(-6) after EMS mutagenesis of the wild-type strain, N2. Four new dominant resistance mutations have been studied genetically. Three are alleles of a previously identified gene, ama-1 IV, encoding the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II. The fourth mutation defines a new gene, ama-2 ...

"This ain't my daddy's AMA".

Chiropractors in Australian Hospitals

A discussion is presented outlining the necessary elements required of chiropractors to work successfully in hospitals.

Could chiropractors screen for adverse drug events in the community? Survey of US chiropractors

BACKGROUND The "Put Prevention into Practice" campaign of the US Public Health Service (USPHS) was launched with the dissemination of the Clinician's Handbook of Preventive Services that recommended standards of clinical care for various prevention activities, including preventive clinical strategies to reduce the risk of adverse drug events. We explored whether nonprescribing clinicians such a...