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"Operation Cure-all" Targets Internet Health Fraud Description: FTC law enforcement and consumer education campaign focuses on stopping the quacks. (ftc.gov) |
American Council of Science and Health Description: Press releases and articles related to health care fraud and quackery. (acsh.org) |
Avoiding Quackery Description: Offers an Online book with tips on how to protect yourself from quackery. (thebestmedicalcare.com) |
Bunko Squad Description: Tips and resources on how to spot quackery. (geocities.com) |
Canadian Quackery Watch Description: Monitors the media for reports of medical frauds and quacks. Includes features on individual quacks, pending lawsuits, scientific rebuttals of 'dubious' claims, and related links. (healthwatcher.net) |
Cataract Surgery Fraud Description: Information about fraud in advertising for cataract surgery. (seniorhealth.about.com) |
Center for Quackery Control Description: Challenges the claims of alternative healers, psychics, and other quacks. (netasia.net) |
Chirobase Practices Description: Skeptical guide to chiropractic history, theories, and current practices. (chirobase.org) |
FDA Backgrounder Description: The FDA Backgrounder lists the most common kinds of health fraud. Provides advice on how to spot a quack and where to file a complaint. (fda.gov) |
Fraud and Quackery Internet Resources Description: Listing of useful web sites related to compiling health care fraud reports. (pitt.edu) |
Fraud in Health Care Links Description: Helps identifying web sites that offer fraudulent health products and services. (www-hsl.mcmaster.ca) |
Health Quackery Description: Provides information on how to spot health quackery. (nia.nih.gov) |
National Council Against Health Fraud, Inc. Description: The NCAHF is a USA voluntary health agency that focuses its attention upon health fraud, misinformation and quackery as public health problems. (ncahf.org) |
Quackwatch Description: Covers unproven and scientifically questionable claims of alternative health therapies, vitamin peddlers, and other health frauds. (quackwatch.org) |
Spotting Health Fraud Description: Easy understandable list on how to check health care web sites that promise treatment success too fast and too easy. (urbanext.uiuc.edu) |
U.S. Food and Drug Administration Description: Easy-to-read FDA publication about phony medicines and unproven treatments. (fda.gov) |