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05/17/2008
Appeals court rules in favor of Palmer alumni


05/17/2008
NYCC’s Wellcare Ambassador interviewed on WFAN
On May 9th , the New York Chiropractic Council’s WellCare Ambassador, Harry Carson, DC, a former New York Giant and NFL Hall of Fame inductee, was on the Boomer & Carton show on WFAN, 660 AM. Carson was interviewed to share his chiropractic experience. He challenged host Craig Carton to try chiropractic care and Carton accepted the challenge. Carson will revisit the show in August review how chiropractic care has helped Craig Carton.


05/17/2008
SBA launches lender-advantage initiative
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has extended to Region VII an initiative aimed at fostering economic development in America’s rural areas by making it easier for smaller community banks and credit unions to use SBA loan products to finance small businesses.


05/17/2008
Palmer receives $150K first-year grant, part of $2.6M from NCCAM
The Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research (PCCR) has received an award to establish a four-year, multidisciplinary Developmental Center for Clinical and Translational Science in Chiropractic from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).


05/17/2008
Citizens’ petition to FDA: Remove weight-loss claims from supplements
Three organizations and a drug company have joined forces in petitioning the Food and Drug Administration to treat weight-loss claims for dietary supplements as disease claims. The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) immediately announced it would fight the petition.


05/17/2008
2 scholarships awarded
Two chiropractic students have been awarded Wellness Works Scholarships from the OUM Chiropractor Program. Recipients are Rooza Goharchin and Brian Vranes.


05/17/2008
SCU professor publishes chiropractic textbook
Southern California University of Health Sciences (SCU) professor Paul Hooper, DC, MPH, MS, has authored the book Physical Modalities, a therapeutic modality text written specifically for the chiropractic student.


05/17/2008
Patriot Express loans available for military spouses
The Patriot Express loan initiative from the Small Business Administration (SBA) is up and running and available to help military families start or build a small business. Patriot Express is available to military community members including veterans, service-disabled veterans, service members leaving active duty, Reservists and National Guard members, current spouses of any of these groups, spouses of active duty members, a widowed spouse of a service member who died during service, or of a service-connected disability.


05/17/2008
OCR Web site adds HIPAA enforcement data
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has added a new data section on its Compliance and Enforcement Web site regarding the enforcement of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The public can now access enhanced information about several aspects of OCR’s health information enforcement program including:


05/17/2008
Free Web-based tool helps businesses to go ‘green’
Small and mid-sized businesses can now “green” their operations at no cost with the Web-based tool, the “Greening Advisor,” developed by Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental organization.


05/17/2008
Committee evaluates impact of planned Medicare physician-fee cuts
Because cuts to Medicare physician-fee payments threaten to undermine the work of small healthcare practices, members of the House Committee on Small Business heard from the Deputy Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) May 8. They also received testimony from a panel of healthcare providers, who noted the planned cuts would greatly limit services to the nation’s neediest communities.


05/17/2008
Study: DCs don’t take advantage of blogging
Less than 1 percent of American chiropractors blog and, of those who do, more than one-third of chiropractor blogs are inactive, according to a new study by The Kahuna Content Company, a social media research company, into how chiropractors use blogs to market their businesses.


05/17/2008
SBA to offer online training on franchising
Entrepreneurs considering franchising can now access a new online course from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and FranNet to help them navigate the competitive franchise industry.


05/17/2008
CCP in final stages of reviewing guideline’s third edition
The Council on Chiropractic Practice (CCP) is in the final phase of completing the third edition of the CCP’s Clinical Practice Guideline: Vertebral Subluxation in Chiropractic Practice.