Going from the 38 year old winner of the Boston Marathon to the 91 year old woman who just set an over 90 year old age group female marathon record.

hoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/91-old-marathoner-smokes-competition-153723959--abc-news-health.html

Ok...now getting of the topic of epidural steroid injections. I and many others were very excited to see an American male win the prestigious Boston Marathon for the first time in 21 years! Here is an Interview with Meb Keflezighi's chiropractic physician.

http://www.toyourhealth.com/mpacms/tyh/article.php?id=1978

Here is another comparative study...this one between manipulation and disc surgery for patients with radiculopathy 
(pinched nerve) from disc herniation. 60% of the patients in the manipulation group had the same amount of improvement as the surgical group at one year follow up.
Does it surprise anyone that manipulation can help patients with disc herniation?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21036279

DC appointed director of Virginia Department of Health Professions.

On Feb. 28, 2014, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe appointed David Brown, DC, as new director of the Virginia Department of Health Professions.
This may be the first time a doctor of chiropractic has held this position in any state – full-time director of an executive-branch agency that oversees the licensure and regulation of health professionals statewide.

http://www.dynamicchiropractic.com/mpacms/dc/article.php?id=56977

Medical school leaders cash in on drug company boards

There was a lot of news coverage of a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association showing a surprising number of US medical school leaders serving on drug company boards of directors, raising questions about their independence. Average annual compensation from the drug company service was $313,000. Nice pocket change.

http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/medical-school-leaders-cash-in-on-drug-company-boards-b99237232z1-253425641.html

Chiropractic Procedures Found Beneficial for Spinal Stenosis

Spinal stenosis is a fancy medical term for narrowing spinal canal and/or the holes in which the nerves exit the spine and can be congenital or secondary to spinal arthritis. It is becoming more common with the increasing age of the population and is a common reason for spinal surgery. Symptoms can include back pain, leg pain and/or numbness, leg weakness, and difficulty walking. Here is a now study showing significant improvement for the condition with chiropractic procedures.
Has anyone had treatment for spinal stenosis?

http://gethealthyblog.org/significant-and-clinically-meaningful-improvement-in-patient-rated-improvement-and-disability/

Brains of elderly slow because they know so much

A new study in the Journal of Topics in Cognative Science comes to the conclusion that older people do not decline mentally with age, it just takes them longer to recall facts because they have more information in their brains, scientists believe.
Much like a computer struggles as the hard drive gets full up, so to do humans take longer to access information, it has been suggested

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10584927/Brains-of-elderly-slow-because-they-know-so-much.html