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Social Issues - Quackery

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      new window "Operation Cure-all" Targets Internet Health Fraud Description: FTC law enforcement and consumer education campaign focuses on stopping the quacks. (ftc.gov)
new window American Council of Science and Health Description: Press releases and articles related to health care fraud and quackery. (acsh.org)
new window Avoiding Quackery Description: Offers an Online book with tips on how to protect yourself from quackery. (thebestmedicalcare.com)
new window Bunko Squad Description: Tips and resources on how to spot quackery. (geocities.com)
new window 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)
new window Cataract Surgery Fraud Description: Information about fraud in advertising for cataract surgery. (seniorhealth.about.com)
new window Center for Quackery Control Description: Challenges the claims of alternative healers, psychics, and other quacks. (netasia.net)
new window Chirobase Practices Description: Skeptical guide to chiropractic history, theories, and current practices. (chirobase.org)
new window 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)
new window Fraud and Quackery Internet Resources Description: Listing of useful web sites related to compiling health care fraud reports. (pitt.edu)
new window Fraud in Health Care Links Description: Helps identifying web sites that offer fraudulent health products and services. (www-hsl.mcmaster.ca)
new window Health Quackery Description: Provides information on how to spot health quackery. (nia.nih.gov)
new window 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)
new window Quackwatch Description: Covers unproven and scientifically questionable claims of alternative health therapies, vitamin peddlers, and other health frauds. (quackwatch.org)
new window 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)
new window U.S. Food and Drug Administration Description: Easy-to-read FDA publication about phony medicines and unproven treatments. (fda.gov)
 




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