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Home / Society / Issues / Health / Fraud / Quackery
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- "Operation Cure-all" Targets Internet Health Fraud - FTC law enforcement and consumer education campaign focuses on stopping the quacks.
www.ftc.gov/opa/1999/9906/opcureall.htm
- American Council of Science and Health - Press releases and articles related to health care fraud and quackery.
www.acsh.org/medical
- Anti-Quackery Mailing Lists - Features a health fraud discussion list and an alert announcement list for those interested in the fight against unscientific medical practices and quackery.
www.hcrc.org/mlists.html
- Avoiding Quackery - Offers an Online book with tips on how to protect yourself from quackery.
www.thebestmedicalcare.com/book/readbooks_page.htm
- Bunko Squad - Tips and resources on how to spot quackery.
www.wellnessweb.com/ALTERN/bunko/bunko.htm
- Canadian Quackery Watch - 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/Quackerywatch
- Cataract Surgery Fraud - Information about fraud in advertising for cataract surgery.
seniorhealth.about.com/health/seniorhealth/library/conditions/blcatsurg.htm
- Center for Quackery Control - Challenges the claims of alternative healers, psychics, and other quacks.
www.netasia.net/users/truehealth
- Chirobase Practices - Skeptical guide to chiropractic history, theories, and current practices.
www.chirobase.org
- FDA Backgrounder - 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.
www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1999/699_fraud.html
- Fraud and Quackery Internet Resources - Listing of useful web sites related to compiling health care fraud reports.
www.pitt.edu/~cbw/fraud.html
- Fraud in Health Care Links - Helps identifying web sites that offer fraudulent health products and services.
www-hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/fraud.html
- Fraud with Hearing Aids - Features fraudulent hearing aid products and provides information on how to report such fraud cases.
seniorhealth.about.com/health/seniorhealth/library/prevention/blhearftc.htm
- Health Fraud Discussion List - Provides a forum for discussing health frauds, quackery, and unscientific health matters.
www.quackwatch.com/00AboutQuackwatch/discuss.html
- Health Quackery - Provides information on how to spot health quackery.
www.aoa.dhhs.gov/aoa/pages/agepages/healthqk.html
- Home Medical Equipment Fraud - Online booklet on how to obtain reliable home medical equipment and how to report suspected fraudulent products.
www.medicare.gov/publications/pubs/nonpdf/consumerfraud.asp
- How to Spot Medical and Health Fraud - How to protect yourself from worthless, sometimes dangerous health products by learning some of the sellers' marketing techniques.
pharmacology.about.com/health/pharmacology/c/ht/00/07/How_Spot_Medical_Health0963710723.htm
- National Council Against Health Fraud, Inc. - The NCAHF is a USA voluntary health agency that focuses its attention upon health fraud, misinformation and quackery as public health problems.
www.ncahf.org
- Quackwatch - Covers unproven and scientifically questionable claims of alternative health therapies, vitamin peddlers, and other health frauds.
www.quackwatch.com
- Spotting Health Fraud - Easy understandable list on how to check health care web sites that promise treatment success too fast and too easy.
www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/greenline/00v2/08.html
- Tip Offs to Rip Offs - Tips on how to spot fraudulent health products.
pharmacology.about.com/health/pharmacology/library/weekly/aa991110.htm
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Easy-to-read FDA publication about phony medicines and unproven treatments.
www.fda.gov/opacom/lowlit/medfraud.html
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