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Dear HPA Affiliate, Welcome to our practitioner e-newsletter. We are open to receive news submissions you find noteworthy for practitioners of Family Wellness. Letter from the President: Our president Dr. Lawrence Palevsky has a message for all of us. It can be read here: www.hpakids.org/letter_from_president.html. Pass it on to your fellow colleagues so they can share the vision we have for family wellness. New HPA Membership Benefit: Join our new online clinical forum to discuss questions, cases and modes of care. www.hpakids.org/phpbb3 National Advertising: The HPA does national advertising on behalf of its members. We are already in Pathways magazine and will be in Mothering magazine in the next issue, along with a link from their website to ours. This will increase your exposure to parents and therefore increase your referrals. We are currently working towards additional advertising on numerous websites and magazines. Membership: Please encourage your colleagues to join the HPA. The more members, the wider we can expand our public education and the more magazines and websites we can advertise with. Here is suggestion of practitioners who should join the HPA: Holistic Pediatricians, Family Practitioners of Oriental Medicine, Acupuncture, Naturopathy, Homeopathy, Counseling, Nutrition, Holistic OB's, Birth Care Providers, Doulas, Midwives, Childbirth Educators, Lactation Consultants... Send your colleagues here: www.hpakids.org/membership.htm View Our Newly Posted Video Clips: Dr. Lawrence Palevsky and Dr. Jeanne Ohm share clips of their full hour TV show. View them here: www.hpakids.org/RadioShow.htm. These are also found on YouTube and will lead many more parents to the HPA Site. Combination Vaccines: It never ceases to baffle me how junk science such as this can actually get into the journals. "Combination Vaccine Effective, Safe, Convenient in Certain Infants": www.medscape.com/viewarticle/564039?src=sr And what about the certain infants that it is not safe for? Do we have a way to predetermine this, or is the administration of the vaccine the live experiment? Antibiotics not Indicated for URI — Once Again: A mammoth study among outpatients with URIs shows that antibiotics are not needed to prevent complications. Threats for Arrest Cause Uproar: The parents of more than 2,300 Prince George's County students who failed to get needed vaccinations could face fines of $50 a day and up to 10 days in jail if their children do not meet the state's immunization requirements, county officials said yesterday. Read more here: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/13/AR2007111301408.html A Place to Vote: A Letter for Maryland Parents to Sign: A National Organization Protecting Your Rights: More Articles and Information Regarding Maryland's "Vaccine Police" from the
National Vaccine Information Center: Read an Excellent Article on Vaccines Here: Big Pharma: New report reveals that drug company gifts to doctors threaten developing world healthcare. Read the report here. Psychiatric Abuse: Another great web site to browse: Natural Cold and Flu Herbs: www.hpakids.org/hpaNewsletter/HPA_Newsletter_Herbs_Flu.htm Website Worthy of Review: This Mercury Free-Drugs website has some pertinent clinical suggestions: www.mercury-freedrugs.org The Allopathic Consideration of no Antibiotics For URI: Although this article does not consider any alternative methods, it does caution the use of antibiotics. Jeanne Ohm, DC Visit www.hpakids.org for numerous resources and membership benefits. It is not, and never will be, our intention to send unsolicited e-mail or spam of any kind. Please accept our apologies if you have received this e-mail without subscribing to our list. If you do not wish to receive further email communications from HPA, please unsubscribe at the bottom of this e-mail. |