Training:

ICPA Collaborative Conferences:

The ICPA is pleased to announce its joint Celebration of Chiropractic with Cleveland Chiropractic College:

February 17-20, 2005: Promoting the Principle, Practice & Passion of Chiropractic:

Cleveland Conference – Los Angeles Expo 2005
Great speakers, state-of-the-art exhibits, fun events and all that is L.A.– it’s License Renewal with a Kick!

Get away from the cold and join us in sunny, southern California!

Drs. Alcantara, Buerger and Ohm from the ICPA will all have workshops.
Dr Alcantara will be reviewing ICPA's current research, Dr Buerger will be debuting her new ADHD material, and Dr Ohm will be offering Webster Certification
Visit: http://www.clevelandchiropractic.edu/ClevelandConferences/events.htm

Education and Public Participation:


Have-A Heart 2005 Campaign for Oaklahaven:

Join the chiropractic colleges and hundreds of chiropractic clinics across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom who are helping the non-profit Oklahaven Children's Chiropractic Center, by conducting a Have-A-Heart 2005 Campaign in your office during the week of Valentine's Day, February 9-15. You will be supporting an internationally recognized nonprofit organization and increasing the chiropractic awareness of your own patients at the same time.

Conducting a campaign is easy, and creates "contagious excitement" among patients and clinic staff.

Let Us Know that you "Have-A-Heart" and we will send you:

Nine-minute video about the center, that is yours to keep.
Pamphlets about Oklahaven Children's Chiropractic Center.
Hearts to list donor's name and display in your waiting room, front desk or along the halls to patient rooms.
Information sheets with details and deadlines for the campaign.

Visit Oaklahaven here: http://www.chiropractic4kids.com/heart.shtml to participate in this community event.

Pathways for your Patients:

Consider giving new patients in your practice a gift of an annual subscription to Pathways. It is especially timely as a gift when your pregnant women deliver. Just sign up your parents as ICPA members here: http://www.icpa4kids.org/research/participate.htm

To encourage other parents to join as well you can print out a color flier for your office: http://www.icpa4kids.com/members/icpa%20public%20membership.pdf

To print out black and white order forms for your office, click here: http://www.icpa4kids.org/research/participate.htm

Research:

ICPA Presents at 2005 RAC Conference.

ICPA Research Director, Dr. Joel Alcantara will be presenting at the annual ACC/ RAC conference on behalf if the ICPA.:

For platform presentation:
Chiropractic Care of a Pediatric Patient with Migraine-type headaches and Vertebral Subluxations
Joel Alcantara,DC and Kyle Pankonin, DC

For poster presentation:

Chiropractic treatment of a pediatric patient with vertebral subluxations and concomitant seizure disorder
Joel ALcantara, DC and Van Fotinopoulos, DC

Chiropractic care of a pediatric patient with symptoms of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Joel Alcantara, DC and Renata Anderson, DC

Membership:

Exciting New Membership Benefit:

Our doctor web site (www.icpa4kids.com) will be offering our members an online Discussion Board for clinical questions

It is time for many of you to renew your membership. We've sent out e-mail notices and if you have not yet renewed, please do so to stay on our web referral directory.

Visit our new on-line membership-status page to check on your membership renewal date: http://www.icpa4kids.com/locator/renewal.php

If your name is not on the list, your membership is past due. Renew here now: https://secure.icpa4kids.com/mform.html and keep your membership benefits uninterrupted:

Staying current with membership allows you to:

1- continue to benefit from our national advertising
2- keep your name listed on our active referral directory
3- stay current with your Pathway's subscription
4- participate in our new on-line chat room
5- receive our first research journal issue
6- stay in touch with cutting edge info
7- obtain discounts on your seminar registrations

We will continue to offer membership benefits that directly impact your success in practice. Your ongoing support and commitment to our joint mission is greatly appreciated.

News to Use:

New study reexamines the relationship between thimerosal and autism.

The study"Neurodevelopmental Disorders Following Thimerosal-Containing Childhood Immunizations: A Follow-up Analysis" just published in the
peer-reviewed scientific/medical International Journal of Toxicology. The authors previously published the first epidemiological study from the United States associating thimerosal from childhood vaccines with neurodevelopmental disorders based upon assessment of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database. A number of years have gone by since their previous analysis of the VAERS. The present completely open epidemiological study was undertaken to determine whether the previously observed effect between thimerosal-containing childhood vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders rare still apparent in the VAERS as children have had a chance to further mature and be diagnosed with additional neurodevelopmental disorders. In the present study, a cohort of children receiving thimerosal-containing Diphtheria-Tetanus-acellular-Pertussis (DTaP) vaccines in comparison to a cohort of children receiving thimerosal-free DTaP vaccines administered from 1997 through 2000 based upon an assessment of adverse events reported to the VAERS database (online VAERS database updated through 28 February 2004) were evaluated.

It was determined that there were significantly increased odds ratios (ORs) for autism (OR = 1.8 p < 0.05), mental retardation (OR = 2.6, p < 0.002),
speech disorders (OR = 2.1, p < 0.02), personality disorders (OR = 2.6, p < 0.01), and thinking abnormalities (OR = 8.2, p < 0.01) reported to the VAERS database following thimerosal-containing DTaP vaccines in comparison to thimerosal-free DTaP vaccines.

The present study provides additional epidemiological evidence supporting previous epidemiological, clinical and experimental evidence that administration of thimerosal-containing vaccines in the United States resulted in a significant number of children developing neurodevelopmental
disorders. The authors concluded, "Despite, the recent conclusion from the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine that there is no
evidence of relationship between thimerosal and autism, and that no further scientific research should be undertaken to evaluate to evaluate the relationship between thimerosal and autism, the results of the present study, taken with data recently published by a number of researchers,
demonstrate a connection between mercury exposure via infant vaccinations and the dramatic increase in autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders
in the United States. It is clear that the results of the present study, mandate that additional research should be undertaken, no only for autism,
but other childhood neurodevelopmental disorders, by evaluating childhood mercury-associated exposures, especially from thimerosal-containing childhood vaccines."

If you would like to read the study in its entirety, please -email me at info@icpa4kids.com with "Neuro disorders and Thimerosal" in the subject box.