quackery

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• - Helps identifying web sites that offer fraudulent health products and services.
  
• - Covers unproven and scientifically questionable claims of alternative health therapies, vitamin peddlers, and other health frauds.
  
• - Listing of useful web sites related to compiling health care fraud reports.
  
• - 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.
  
• - FTC law enforcement and consumer education campaign focuses on stopping the quacks.
  
• - Information about fraud in advertising for cataract surgery.
  
• - Skeptical guide to chiropractic history, theories, and current practices.
  
• - Easy understandable list on how to check health care web sites that promise treatment success too fast and too easy.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Offers an Online book with tips on how to protect yourself from quackery.
  
• - The NCAHF is a USA voluntary health agency that focuses its attention upon health fraud, misinformation and quackery as public health problems.
  
• - Press releases and articles related to health care fraud and quackery.
  
• - Provides information on how to spot health quackery.
  
• - Easy-to-read FDA publication about phony medicines and unproven treatments.
  
• - Challenges the claims of alternative healers, psychics, and other quacks.
  
• - Tips and resources on how to spot quackery.