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HEALTHBEAT SHOW NOTES .... Episode #19 - Recorded November 18, 2005

In this week’s news:

• Headaches and Anger

• ACA Hall of Fame

• ACA Protects Medicare Payments

• New Orleans Health Clubs Reopens

• Sweets and Breast Cancer Risks

• Medicare Part D

• SOT Seminar

• And Finally, Chiropractic Corner talks with Dr. David Lemberg

For HealthBeat, This is Dr. Todd Eglow.

Welcome to HealthBeat Podcast #19, recorded November 18, 2005.  HealthBeat is Chiropractic OnLine Today’s radio program, providing current news and commentary about Chiropractic and Health. 

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Headaches and Anger

The FCER reports on a Headache study from The Journal of Headache and Pain. Online First, November 3, 2005 edition.

The objective of the study was to evaluate the prevalence and the characteristics of anger and emotional distress in migraine and tension-type headache patients.

All the subjects completed the State-Trait Anger -Expression Inventory, the Beck’s Depression Inventory and the Cognitive Behavioral Assessment. Anger control was significantly lower in all headache patients except in migraineurs. Patients with migraine and tension-type headache showed a significantly higher level of angry temperament and angry reaction.

In addition, chronic tension-type headache and migraine associated with tension-type headache patients reported a higher level of anxiety, depression, phobias, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, emotional liability and psycho-physiological disorders. 

The study concluded that chronic tension-type headache and migraine associated with tension-type headache patients present a significant impairment of anger control and suggests a connection between anger and the duration of headache experience.

For more information, surf to the November 3, 2005 edition of The Journal of Headache and Pain.

Dr. Santiago Elected to The Hall of Fame

According to the ANJC eNewsletter, Dr. Philip Santiago, has been inducted into the American Chiropractic Association’s Council on Sports Injuries and Physical Fitness Hall of Fame (Sports Council).

The award is the ninth since the inception of the Sports Council and  was presented to Dr Santiago in August during the Council's annual symposium, held in conjunction with the Florida Chiropractic Association's national convention in Orlando . Dr. Santiago was recognized for his enthusiastic, long and extensive services to the Council and his association with, promotion of, and service to all levels of sports both amateur to professional through sports chiropractic.

For more information, surf to ANJC.info

ACA Protects Medicare Payments

According to a press release from the ACA, During the US Senate Finance Committee's mark up of the budget reconciliation bill, Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) submitted an amendment that would increase funding for a medical specialty program and offset the cost of that increase by cutting chiropractic Medicare payments.  Senator Crapo was ready to utilize the supposed "savings" identified in the June HHS Office of Inspector General report on chiropractic services in Medicare to fund the amendment.
 
ACA's Government Relations department was SUCCESSFUL in beating back the proposal, largely as a result of our members' rapid and effective response to our call to action.  Many ACA members called his office, and within hours, we were informed that Senator Crapo had withdrawn his amendment from consideration.  We believe this grassroots effort was integral in fending off the amendment.
 
For more information, surf to http://www.amerchiro.org

New Orleans Health clubs Reopens;

According to the Fitness Business Pro newsletter, Hurricane Katrina devastated health clubs in New Orleans are beginning to open their doors to the public.

The fitness center at the Uptown Jewish Community Center reopened last week with limited service, and more than 70 people came in to work out. Another New Orleans JCC, however, will not be able to operate for several months. The Metairie facility's first floor had to be demolished to destroy the mold that began to grow in the facility after it was flooded with eight inches of water. Two JCCs in Florida are also closed until further notice due to the recent hurricanes -- Samuel M. and Helene Soref JCC in Fort Lauderdale and Posnack JCC in Hollywood .

For more information, surf to http://fitnessbusiness-pro.com/

Eating Sweets and Breast Cancer Risks

According to the British Medical Journal, regularly eating sweet foods, including biscuits, ice cream, honey, and chocolate, may increase the risk of breast cancer.

Results from a large case control study of more than 5000 Italian women have shown that the effects may be significant, as about12% of breast cancer cases were found in this Italian population and, therefore, is far from negligible on a public health level,”

The study was published in the October 25^th edition of the Annals of Oncology (published online on 25 October; http://annonc.oxfordjournals.org, doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdj051

 “In this study, sweet consumption was directly associated [with] breast cancer risk. The risk was consistently elevated in strata of age, [body mass index], total calorie intake, alcohol, physical activity and family history of breast cancer,” say the authors from the Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche, Milan; the International Agency for Research on Cancer; and a number of other centres in Milan, Genoa, and Naples.

The authors of the study point out that the sweet foods were rich in several nutrients potentially involved in causing breast cancer, including refined carbohydrates and saturated fats. “A frequent consumption of sugars or foods with a high glycemic index may lead to insulin resistance, and a direct association between glycemic index or glycemic load and breast cancer risk has been suggested,” they say.

“This may cause an increase of insulin related growth factors which are promoters of breast carcinogenesis. Insulin also stimulates ovarian steroid secretion, including estrogens and androgens, which have been related to excess breast cancer risk.”

For more information, surf bmj.bmjjournals.com - http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/331/7525/1102-b?ecoll

Medicare Part D

After a two-year wait, on Tuesday November 15, 2005, more than 40 million Americans eligible for Medicare can start to sign up for Medicare Part D, the program's voluntary prescription drug benefit. And by Tuesday, a quarter of those people, some 10 million retired American workers, will find out something more specific: whether their former employers will continue to pay for their prescription drug benefits in 2006.  The new voluntary drug benefit begins Jan. 1.

Part D allows people on Medicare to get their drugs in one of two ways: by buying an individual drug policy or by signing up with a Medicare Advantage managed care plan. The new drug plans are being offered by private health insurance companies.

To encourage employers to retain their retiree prescription coverage, Congress offered them a 28 percent tax-free subsidy of the cost of that coverage. But the question was: Would employers keep their drug plans and take the subsidy, or would they dump their plans to save money, knowing that retirees could now get prescription coverage from Medicare Part D?

For more information about this story, surf to our show notes at ChiropracticRadio.com and surf to the Washington Post’s online site entitled Medicare and You.  This site contains Medicare articles and a Part D calculator.

Following is a CNBC Segment from November 14, 2005.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/11/08/LI2005110800857.html

SOT Seminar

The NJ Chiro Group, the ANJC, will be presenting a Hands-On Seminar on the Sacro-Occipital Technique, also known as SOT, on Saturday December 3rd, 2005.

Presented by Dr. Harvey Getzoff, the workshop is being presented as a series of case studies with a variety of musculoskeletal conditions, and the rationale and method used to successfully treat the patient.

For more information call ANJC Headquarters at 908.722.5678.

As always, please surf to our Podcast Show Notes at ChiropractiRadio.com for a full listing of web references mentioned in today’s show.

Chiropractic Corner –

In this edition of HealthBeat’s Chiropractic Corner, we are joined once again, by long-time COT contributor, Dr. David Lemberg.

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