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South Korea
Cleveland Chiropractic College to sign historic educational affiliation with Nambu University
Earlier this year officials from Nambu University in South Korea were on the Los Angeles campus of Cleveland Chiropractic College to participate in a signing ceremony for a historic educational affiliation between the schools.

South Africa
Palmer Faculty Member to Lead Chiropractic Delegation in South Africa
Lisa Killinger, D.C., a research, diagnosis and radiology faculty member at Palmer College of Chiropractic, has been appointed to lead a chiropractic delegation to South Africa through the People to People Ambassador Program. Delegates will visit South African healthcare centers and chiropractic colleges and meet with health professionals in several cities.

The trip is scheduled for October 16-25, 2005, and will include extensive discussions on the delivery of, and access to, chiropractic care in various clinical settings in South Africa; chiropractic education, clinical training and research in South Africa; and the AIDS epidemic and the role of chiropractors in providing palliative care/enhancing quality of life.

As the 2003-2004 chair of the Public Health Association Chiropractic Healthcare Section, Dr. Killinger is a natural to lead this historic delegation. “I encourage my fellow chiropractors to pursue this rare and exciting opportunity,” she said. “Delegates can play a role in defining the themes for discussion, and will be able to both share and gain insights through the exchange.”

The group will visit three primary areas — Johannesburg, Kruger National Park and Cape Town — experiencing South Africa’s culture and heritage along the way. People to People International was established by Mary J. Eisenhower, granddaughter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Canada
Quebec D.C.s Regain Right to Diagnose
Earlier this year, the Court of Appeal of Québec confirmed the “right and duty” of chiropractors to perform diagnoses of the neuromusculoskeletal system. Exactly two years after a Superior Court judgment denied this right, following a challenge by, among others, the Québec College of Physicians and Surgeons, the three judges of the Court of Appeal—the Honorable Jean-Louis Baudouin, JCA, Benoit Morin, JCA, and Andre Rochon, JCA—reversed the Superior Court decision.

The president of the Quebec Order of Chiropractors (L’Ordre des Chiropraticiens du Québec), Dr. Normand Danis, declared that this judgment will assist efforts to protect the public and enhance the development of chiropractic in the fields of diagnostic research and technology, “The decision by Québec’s highest court ends a seven-year battle against the Québec College of Physicians and Surgeons. The college’s statement concerning its monopoly on diagnosis is now a thing of the past, and the chiropractic profession in Québec is once again harmonized with the rest of North America in this regard.”

“This court decision will have a major impact on all the other files that were on hold, like the recognition of the chiropractic doctorate at the Unviversité du Québec in Trois-Rivéires and the research activities in the diagnostic and high technology fields. The decision will also accelerate negotiations with the Workers Compensation Board and automobile accident victims’ insurance coverage for direct access to chiropractic care,” he concludes.


More Canadians Using Chiropractors and Other Alternative Healthcare
In a report recently released from Statistic Canada, the use of alternative healthcare, including chiropractic, is growing in popularity. The organization said a health survey taken in 2003 found about 20 percent of Canadians aged 12 and older—an estimated 5.4 million people—had used some type of alternative health care in the previous year.

A study almost a decade before had found 15 percent of Canadians over 17 had used alternative healthcare in the previous year. The 2003 study found 11 percent of those 12 and older had consulted a chiropractor in the previous year, eight percent had consulted a massage therapist, two percent an acupuncturist and two percent a homeopath or a naturopath.

Those most likely to consult an alternative practitioner included people in middle age, women, those with higher incomes, those with higher education and people living in the western provinces. The very young and senior citizens were less likely to use alternative healthcare.

Source: CBC News

Iraq
Students Adopt U.S. Platoon in Green Zone
A student group at National University of Health Sciences received a unique thank you gift recently—a specially inscribed embroidered Iraqi Freedom Flag from an armor platoon stationed in Iraq’s green zone.

Last March, chiropractic student Bruce Klein helped launch a community service project to show support for service men and women in Iraq. Bruce contacted “Adopt a Platoon” hoping to give support to a specific platoon where another NUHS student’s relative was assigned.

Unfortunately, that particular platoon was not on the sponsorship list, but the NUHS group was assigned to adopt 81st Brigade Armor Platoon #303.

The group solicited donations of chewing gum, comic and crossword puzzles, magazines, books, videos and music CDs, non-perishable snacks, canned goods, lotion, razors, toothpaste, and other toiletries and personal items to help the soldiers.
Since that time, Deb Zeleny, drive coordinator and chiropractic student, has mailed an average of one box every week to the platoon. “The item they appreciate most is baby-wipes,” says Zeleny. “They don’t always have an opportunity to shower, and clean water is scarce.”

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