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Alert ─ California’s State Bill 628 Must Not Pass

According to Senator Leland Yee’s website, “Since 2003, Dr. Yee has one of the best track records in getting his bills passed and signed into law. In fact, he has successfully passed 133 pieces of legislation, of which 100 have been chaptered into law.” With a track record like that, he would be the person to go to to call in a political favor. California State Bill 628 just may be that favor.

While the stated topic is Acupuncture Regulation, the bill is actually aimed at TCM traumatologists, a field that has nothing to do with the specialty of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Because all acupuncture laws are already in place, and the bill’s actual stipulated topic is traumatologists, the bill’s topic should be TCM Traumatologist Regulation, which would be far less misleading.

How will this bill benefit California residents if it is allowed to pass without including any set standards for traumatologists? One benefit for the TCM traumatologists committee is that the bill places jurisdiction under the California Acupuncture Board (CAB). That means required money including debts related to TCM traumatologists can be paid by the CAB. This is hardly fair to acupuncturists who have nothing to do with this new field, yet are expected to pay TCM traumatologists’ unspecified expenses. The committee deciding on a job description and regulations will be formed in March 2012, and a short two months later the board shall start issuing certificates to the applicants that they see as fit. To go a step further, the committee could decide to base the traumatologists’ job description and regulations solely on a certain applicant’s resume since two months worth of applications would have been collected before the committee ever even meets.

Most people will not know the time frame open to apply (January to December 2012) and will miss the opportunity to become certified as TCM traumatologists; however, the opportunity to become certified is long enough for a special interest group to send in a person with a plan against alternative health care to become certified. This person will be functioning under the CAB’s jurisdiction; therefore, any incident could potentially ruin acupuncture’s reputation in California.

Although a job description is lacking, the monies related to TCM traumatologists certification is spelled out thoroughly. Applicants originally only had to pay $75. Now it’s been changed to $200. Those who fail to renew their certificate after five years will have three years to renew before they risk losing their certificate. Of course, a delinquency fine of $25 and the renewal fee must be paid in order to reinstate certification. Aside from the applicant being eighteen years of age and the monies involved being clearly stated, why are the time frame and physicians to be on the committee the only two clear stipulations made for the whole bill when an explanation of what TCM traumatologists do is absent?

One wonders about the motivation behind this bill. Basically, after this bill passes, a committee can make up the rules to make this bill anything they want. Further, there are inconsistencies, like requesting an annual renewal fee. Previously written into the bill, renewal was set at every five years, not annually. The renewal cost used to be $75 and now that’s been crossed out changed to $100. There’s no word about a refund for those who are not issued a certificate although applying to be a TCM traumatologist. The bill contradicts itself by saying that one can only apply for a certificate in 2012, yet in section 4967, it states, “A person who fails to renew his or her license or certificate within three years after its expiration may not renew it, and it may not be restored, reissued, or reinstated thereafter, but that person may apply for and obtain a new license or certificate if he or she meets all of the following requirements.” New licenses supposedly are not to be given out after December 15, 2012, yet you can “obtain a new license.”

In section 4967(d) of SB 628, it states, “The board may provide for the waiver or refund of all or any part of an examination fee in those cases in which a license to practice acupuncture is issued without an examination pursuant to this section.” TCM traumatologists are not mentioned at all. Regulations around acupuncture testing are already in place. Furthermore, no one is permitted to practice acupuncture without a license except interns within a school setting under the watchful eye of a licensed acupuncturist who is also a teacher. A license is only given after an exam is passed. Two places referring to a written examination for TCM traumatologists have been crossed out of the bill. There’s no affiliation between the two professions. SB 628 discusses acupuncturists and TCM traumatologists separately the whole way through.

How is 4967(d) connected to TCM traumatologists? Yee may as well have written, “Drivers must drive thirty-five in a thirty-five mile per hour zone.” It’s already a law and not connected to TCM traumatologists in any discernable way. Each section is filled with a lot of writing and still doesn’t clarify the job description of a TCM traumatologist. A big question arises, why bring up acupuncturists at all when the bill relates only to TCM traumatologists specifically? Acupuncturists already have rules, regulations, and laws governing their actions in detail. This bill should leave them out of it. Most likely the only reason Yee is mentioning acupuncturists is to make readers of the bill believe in an affiliation between the two professions when none exists.

One has to ask who benefits from the passing of SB 628, especially when there are no educational or certification standards in place. Senator Leland Yee allegedly thought this bill up by himself, working without any special interest group’s influence. This should be easy enough to find out. If interested, we could look up campaign donors to Senator Yee and see if this group is listed, or wait until SB628 passes and see if a donor ends up on the committee.

The California Assembly Committee on Business, Professions, and Consumer Protection will be presented with this bill on July 5, 2011.

http://dist08.casen.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_Basic&SEC={20BBA5EO-F400-4A31-802C-C4416989696D}

www.csomaonline.org/files/public/CSOMA_SB628_position_20110607.pdf

www.csomaonline.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3466

www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=sb_628&sess=CUR

www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0601-0650/sb_628_bill_20110531_amended_sen_v95.html

Warning: Acupuncture in California May Be in Jeopardy

Despite the fact that California’s State Bill 628 is flawed and nonsensical, it will be heard by the California Assembly Committee on July 5, 2011. This much is clear, however. The legality and reputation of acupuncture as a safe healing modality may be in jeopardy.

If it passes, SB 628 will create a new category of providers called Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) traumatologists. While these traumatologists will be under the jurisdiction of the California Acupuncture Board (CAB) and will appear to be affiliated with TCM, nothing could be further from the truth. TCM has nothing at all to do with this new field and being a licensed acupuncturist isn’t even a requirement.

California’s professionals are required to prove they are educated by earning degree credits and passing exams in their fields. TCM traumatologists don’t have to prove education in TCM traumatology because no standards exist.

Acupuncturists have a clear scope of practice outlined for anyone to inquire about, but the committee who will decide what these TCM traumatologists can and cannot do, will not be formed until March, 2012. Furthermore, four physicians or surgeons are to be in charge of the committee of six. Since no physicians will be applying for a position as a traumatologist, it makes little sense that they make up the committee. This makes as much sense as a committee of nurses choosing a school’s teachers.

The bill states that when manipulation techniques are to be done, a physician must be present to observe. Firstly, the use of manipulation techniques implies this new field should be affiliated with chiropractic care rather than TCM. Secondly, a practitioner is to call a doctor to come over and observe each time a traumatologist does a manipulation technique. Why be certified if it means Intern status for the traumatologist’s whole career?

Those who are licensed acupuncturists had to pass a grueling written test. TCM traumatologists, on the other hand, will not take an exam at all despite the CAB being responsible for their actions. Presently, acupuncturists are required to take fifty hours of continuing education within every two year renewal period. Conversely, TCM traumatologists only have to wait five years, pay, and reapply.

Acupuncture testing for licensing occurs every year and is ongoing. With TCM trauamatologists, applications for certification are only to be accepted from January 1, 2012 to December 15, 2012. If TCM traumatologist certification is so legitimate, why only have certification possible for one time only, and for such a short time? The average person wouldn’t even know about the opportunity to get certified. Further, according to this bill, the CAB is required to accept the applications of all those who are seeking certification as long as they meet the criteria─criteria that the committee can establish after reading resumes.

As it says on the California State Oriental Medical Association’s (CSOMA) website, “SB 628, as amended on May 31, 2011, could harm the reputation of licensed acupuncturists, by association, if TCM traumatologists engage in unethical or negligent practice.” Could this be the real intent behind this bill? CSOMA goes on to say, “The bill appears to be focused upon satisfying the needs of a special interest group that is unable or unwilling to obtain licensing or certification through existing means.” Senator Leland Yee supposedly thought this bill up by himself, working without any special interest group’s influence.

Currently, all we know is who will not benefit: the CAB and California residents. If this bill passes, this much is clear: through association, the legality and reputation of acupuncture as a safe healing modality in California may be in jeopardy.

For your opposition to have been recorded in the committee analysis, you had to have faxed the committee consultant Joanna Gin before close of business on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 916.319.3306.

http://dist08.casen.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_Basic&SEC={20BBA5EO-F400-4A31-802C-C4416989696D}

www.csomaonline.org/files/public/CSOMA_SB628_position_20110607.pdf

www.csomaonline.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3466www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=sb_628&sess=CUR

www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0601-0650/sb_628_bill_20110531_amended_sen_v95.html

ALERT: In June 2012, the They tried again with SB 1488.  It was voted down 6-3.  They're going to keep trying to pass this kind of absurd legislation, so look out!

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Assembly Bill 354: Recent Vaccination Law for California

California’s Assembly Bill 354 states that beginning July 1, 2011, all seventh through twelfth grade students must have had the pertussis shot with all appropriate boosters. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has decided that the original series of pertussis shots loose potency between five and ten years after being administered; therefore, a booster is necessary. According to this bill, in 2005 a pertussis booster was licensed in the U.S. in the form of a Tdap vaccination specifically intended for teens and adults. Not only were threatening flyers sent to the parents of at least one LAUSD school warning them to give the booster to their tweens and teens or else, but the whole bill seems to be an attempt to manipulate parents because there is a lack of proof of the booster’s efficacy during an actual pertussis outbreak.

The memo that went out to all public and private school’s administrators from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) indicates that if children received the Tdap vaccine after their seventh birthday, they would not need a booster. Administrators also were asked to post information from the CDPH’s memo for families to read and to become informed. The information asked to be sent to families was as follows:

Pertussis is widespread. If your child is 10 years and older has not yet receivedthe ‘Tdap’ pertussis booster shot, please contact your doctor or health department. Getting a booster shot now will protect your child against the ongoing threat of pertussis and meet a new school requirement that begins in the 2011-2012 school year (California law ─ Assembly Bill 354). Adults are also advised to get a pertussis booster shot, if they haven’t already, to protect themselves, their families, and their students.

The information memo sent to administrators from the CDPH also states, after the first paragraph, that parents can exempt their children from taking the booster “for verified medical conditions or personal beliefs.” Despite the offering of an exemption, at least one middle school in LAUSD sent the information about the new requirements in a very threatening manner. In no place, not even in the most minute print, did this flyer sent to parents state that a waiver for exemption would be accepted. This flyer says, “For the 2011-12 school year all students entering or advancing to 7^th through 12^th grade will need proof of the Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) booster shot before entering school,” followed by information on where to obtain a shot. The flyer then states, “You must present written evidence to the school from your physician or clinic that your child has received the Tdap booster before THE FIRST DAY OF THE 2011-12 SCHOOL YEAR or your child will be EXCLUDED FROM SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.” The CDPH had made all the information about the new law of September 30, 2010, Assembly Bill 354, available to the administrators, yet this school never mentioned the law by name in the flyer that went out to parents. From the parent’s point of view, this could have been simply a school requirement. These parents also were not informed about their right to refuse the vaccination, as was clearly stated on the CDPH’s memo to the school’s administrators. Please be aware that certain states do allow parents to sign a waiver refusing vaccinations for children due to the beliefs of the parents. Get informed. Do not be bullied by administrators and school nurses.

The California Department of Public Health wants every child in California to dose up with Tdap, asserting all the while that the shot “will protect your child against the ongoing threat of pertussis.” This recommendation is made despite the last sentence in “Chapter 10: Pertussis” of the Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (VPD) Surveillance Manual 4th Edition which states, “The efficacy of Tdap vaccination in controlling school or institutional outbreaks has not been evaluated.” This Tdap booster shot was manufactured in 2005. For its part, the CDC uses an information collection form to document vaccination history, doses, dates of doses, etc., of all patients identified as having pertussis, as mentioned in the VPD Surveillance Manual 4^th Edition. Consequently, the CDC does have all the facts as to whether this booster has worked so far or not because right in front of their eyes they can see if this child had the booster and when. If the booster has in fact not been given to any suffers of pertussis, the CDC are easily privy to that information and can state that the reason they cannot evaluate the efficacy of the booster is because all the sufferers had not had the shot. If the truth is there were some tweens and teens with pertussis who had received the booster, then it would be understood why they would wish to keep that quiet; nevertheless, the CDC could still evaluate the booster’s efficacy. If all the kids who have had the booster did not get pertussis when others in their school did, that too could lend credibility to the booster’s efficacy. The information could very easily have been gathered by various school nurses where at least one child was reported as suffering from pertussis. Surely, after six years, some report on the actual effectiveness of the pertussis booster is available for the CDC and the public to evaluate. If not, why has the use of something not thoroughly evaluated for its effectiveness been made into a law?

The CDC’s National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System states that since the 1980’s, pertussis cases have been slowly increasing amongst teens. They further state that possibilities for the increase could be due to more cases of pertussis, or quite possibly to better detecting and reporting of the disease. Nevertheless, the CDC feels the booster is important.

According to a CDC article titled “Outbreaks,” ten infant deaths occurred in California in 2010 from pertussis, and 9 out of 10 of the infants were of Latin background. Details from an investigation surrounding these 10 would be very interesting, especially in regard to the people around the infants and their vaccination histories. One of the babies had the first dose of the pertussis vaccination just 15 days before he died of pertussis, and most of these babies were younger than 3 months. Because of the recent outbreak, the CDC recommends an accelerated immunization schedule for infants, and the CDC encourages the booster shot for individuals who are around babies. The updated regulations state that the first pertussis shot is to be given when the baby is just six weeks old, with one shot to follow every four weeks until five have been given.

The 2004 outbreak of pertussis was not nearly as widespread as the 2010-2011 outbreak. Looking at one group of children who were documented as having pertussis from October 2003 through December 2004, we can see that there really was not much difference between the numbers in the not vaccinated group, the not vaccinated sufficiently group, and the vaccinated sufficiently group, using 2004 criteria of three doses. Of the 115 children documented on a chart, 10 had no known vaccination history. Looking at the 105 remaining, 23 were unvaccinated, 37 were not vaccinated sufficiently, and 45 were vaccinated sufficiently. The surveillance paper states, “Cases among infants younger than six months of age are not preventable by vaccination because these infants are too young to have received three doses of pertussis vaccine, the minimum needed to confer protection.” Of these 105 children, 31 with a known vaccination history were infants, all with insufficient vaccination histories due to their age. The CDC has since increased the required number of shots to five, plus the booster around 10-11 years of age. By the way, 12 of these kids had received five doses. Perhaps the CDC could look for the vulnerability of diseases elsewhere, such as consumption of too much junk food, extreme stress levels,insufficient sleep…and too many vaccinations.

Interestingly, the Immunization Branch of the Communicable Disease Control states that to satisfy this new law, tweens and teens only need to have the pertussis shot, even though a vaccine just for pertussis (without being in cocktail form) is not available in the U.S. In short, by making pertussis vaccination a requirement, this age group is forced to receive the tetanus and diphtheria vaccinations as well.

Parents are cautioned to research the issue and CDC findings, so they can make an informed decision on this matter.

For more information, Please read Dr. Allsup’s article, “Alert-Assembly Bill 354 Passes” at www.naturalnews.com (May 26) and visit www.nvic.org.

References:

Notification “Tdap Immunization Due” flyer on file with author from a CA LAUSD school.

ftp://leginfo.public.ca.gov/.../bill/.../ab.../ab_354_cfa_20100817_190745_ sen_floor.html

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5503al.htm

www.cdc.gov/osels/ph_surveillance/nndss/annsum/2008/08graphs.htm, #41, #42

www.cdc.gov/pertussis/outbreaks.html

www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/immunize/Documents/EarlyAlertToSchools-AB354.pdf

www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/immunize/Documents/Pertussis%20report%209- 14-2010%20- %20For%20Release.pdf

The Routine Use of the Vitamin K Shot

The Vitamin K shot is routinely given to a newborn proactively to promote blood coagulation in the event that the newborn experiences bleeding. Babies are placed in harm’s way by the mother’s choices to use anesthesia and antibiotics, particularly since spinal anesthesia at the birth, antibiotic use by the mother during pregnancy, and a traumatic birth are all believed to contribute to a newborn’s bleeding. Assessing a baby’s needs on an individual basis may avoid the unnecessary use of the Vitamin K shot on a newborn.

Spinal anesthesia given to a laboring mother-to-be can cause hemorrhage in the newborn. At the very least, an expectant mother could ask to read the paperwork that comes with a drug like bupivicaine long before labor to ascertain if she really wants to subject her fetus to the possible side effects. After all, reading the insert of the actual product a doctor may administer is truly informed consent. Because education and training could achieve a different outcome, perhaps weekly Bradley Method classes for expectant parents would help ensure a drugless birthing process. The Bradley Method supports active participation in the birthing process for home or hospital births and can help the father-to-be feel competent and supportive, thus helping the mother to avoid drugs, and possibly helping the baby to avoid needing the Vitamin K shot.

When a woman gives birth in her home environment where her body is familiar with the local germs, there is definitely a reduced need for antibiotics compared with that of a hospital, especially when the circulating air and the laundry (her hospital bed sheets being washed with all manner of germy bed sheets) are taken into consideration. In birthing at home or in a birthing clinic, precautions involving sterilization and cleanliness will be put into place with the support of the midwife. Possibly before conceiving, the mother-to-be can research the many valuable drug-free solutions to various maladies, so ideas can be easily put into practice should the need for a “medicine” arise during pregnancy.

Since Vitamin K is produced by beneficial bacteria, antibiotic use by the mother can lead directly to newborn bleeding because it lowers her beneficial bacteria count, which some researchers feel is unfortunate for the fetus in two ways. First, being exposed to the mother’s bacteria-laden feces at birth may help the baby’s intestinal flora to make Vitamin K. Also, according to some experts, the mom’s antibiotic use will lower the baby’s intestinal flora via the antibiotic’s crossing the placenta. Babies reportedly make two clotting factors close to their due date, right before birth. Vitamin K acts in the liver and, unfortunately, while the child is still connected to the mother, the baby’s liver’s ability to produce blood clotting factors is inhibited by the delivering mother’s antibiotic use. With no maternal antibiotic use, the newborn’s need for the Vitamin K shot is greatly reduced.

To be sure, the births that take place in hospitals are more violent, since labor often has to be started again once the mother-to-be arrives, and the environment is very controlled, with the mother being hooked up to machines and gadgets. As a result, forceps, suction, C-sections, and premature clamping of the umbilicus occur at a higher frequency in hospital settings, and these procedures may lead to internal bleeding in the newborn.

Prevention is not always routinely administering something in order to possibly stop something bad from happening. It’s analyzing why something bad may occur in the first place and not allowing it to happen. If a newborn’s needs were assessed on an individual basis, the routine and unnecessary use of this shot may be avoided.

Sources:

http:/thebabybond.com/vitaminKinjectORnot.html

http://onlinehealthnews.org/2009

http:/www.netdoctor.co.uk/medicine/100001609.html

http://venturabirthcenter.net

www.bradleybirth.com

www.gentlebirth.org/archives/vitktop.html#Controversy

www.vitamin-insight.com/vitamins/vitamin-k.aspx