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| Health Fraud Health fraud falls into two broad classes - telling people lies that may kill them or someone else, and stealing from people by selling bogus medicines. The sites listed here provide useful information in the battle against quackery and for people just wanting to find out more about how real medicine works. (A list of sites offering suspect or fraudulent medical advice, products and services can be found at The Millenium Project.)
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Homeopathy - how could any honest person sell this rubbish? (Peter Bowditch) A large amount of quackery is based on (deliberate?) misrepresentation of what the immune system is and how it works. Here is a brief look at what really goes on. Immunology index (Kevin J. McElwee) Infectious Diseases in Children The Infectious Diseases Society of America "IDSA's purpose is to improve the health of individuals, communities, and society by promoting excellence in patient care, education, research, public health and prevention relating to infectious diseases". Issues & Concerns in Using Medical Information on the Web (Kay Benjamin) Inaccurate information abounds on the Internet. The results of using unverified medical or health information could be dangerous and even deadly. Never apply medical advice or information from the Internet without consulting a medical professional. Anyone can publish on the Net, motivated by the desire to make a profit, by altruism, or even by maliciousness. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) The fight against "attachment therapy" Laetrile is often offered as a cure for cancer. See the truth about cyanide pills here. Leandra Smith's Experience with Hulda Clark Quacks love anecdotes. Here's one they don't like. Levels of Evidence for Human Studies of Cancer - Complementary and Alternative Medicine "A classification system has been developed by the National Cancer Institute's PDQ Adult Treatment Editorial Board to allow the ranking of human cancer treatment studies according to statistical strength of the study design and scientific strength of the treatment outcomes (i.e., endpoints) measured. This classification system has been adapted to allow the ranking of human studies of complementary and alternative medicine treatments for cancer" Media Doctor is a web site dedicated to improving the accuracy of media reports about new medical treatments. The Medical Journal of Australia MEDLINEplus: Medical Dictionary MEDLINEplus: Medical Encyclopedia The Adam Health Illustrated Encyclopedia includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations. The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy The Merck Manual of Medical Information - Home Edition The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices (Bob McCoy) myDr is an Australian healthcare Web site dedicated to providing Australian consumers with the most comprehensive and relevant health information resource in Australia. Narconon is an international drug rehabilitation organisation which claims a presence in 26 countries around the world. This website offers a critical examination of Narconon's claims, contrasting them with the strong body of opposing evidence. The National Association for Chiropractic Medicine "The National Association for Chiropractic Medicine (NACM) is a consumer advocacy association of chiropractors who confine their scope of practice to scientific parameters and seek to make legitimate the utilization of professional manipulative procedures in mainstream health care delivery". The National Council Against Health Fraud National Fraud Information Center The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Library of Medicine, Medlineplus Health Fraud National Patient Safety Foundation Quacks love to say that real medicine doesn't do anything to increase patient safety. They are wrong. The New England Journal of Medicine "[T]he Division’s mission is to increase basic knowledge of the pathogenesis, natural history, and transmission of HIV disease and to support research that promotes progress in its detection, treatment, and prevention." The NSW Public Health Bulletin The NSW Public Health Bulletin is produced by the Public Health Division of the NSW Department of Health as an information vehicle for the whole public health community in New South Wales (Australia). Nutra-Smart.net (Stuart Adams) "The intelligent guide to good health and longevity through optimal nutrition". Operation Cure.All (US Federal Trade Commission) This website offers information for consumers on how to recognize health fraud, guidance for businesses on how to market health products and services truthfully, and information about the FTC's initiatives. PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health) PATH's mission is to improve health, especially the health of women and children. An emphasis is placed on improving the quality of reproductive health services and on preventing and reducing the impact of widespread communicable diseases. PATH identifies, develops, and applies appropriate and innovative solutions to public health problems. This is accomplished by exchanging knowledge, skills, and technologies with governmental and nongovernmental partners in developing countries and with groups in need elsewhere. Persiflagers Annotated Compendium of Infections Disease Facts, Opinion and Dogma (Mark Crislip) "The PACID is an electronic guide to Infectious Diseases for use by all medical people. It is a series of hyperlinked pages covering antibiotics, pathogens and diseases" Pharmaceutical & Medical Abbreviation Dictionary A dictionary of over 70,000 medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical & healthcare acronyms and abbreviations. Probability and Statistics -- from MathWorld The abuse or misunderstanding of statistics is endemic in pseudoscience. This site explains many of the tests and terms used in statistics. (Warning - lots of maths, but generally understandable by a lay person.) Sir Thomas Browne's great 1646 treatise on fallible thinking and self-deception. PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. "A podcast review of Quacks, Frauds and Charlatans. Oops. That's not right. That should be Complementary and Alternative Medicine i.e. CAM" The purpose of this web site is to provide links and information, stimulate debate, and exchange ideas regarding healthcare, health fraud, quackery, alternative medicine, metaphysics, religion, etc., often spiced with sarcasm and humor. The granddaddy of all the anti-quackery sites. Quantum Quackery (Victor J. Stenger) Recovered Memory Therapy in Australia "Unregulated counsellors and psychotherapists present a real threat to ordinary Australian families. RMT is nothing less than 'trial by therapy'. Mothers and fathers are presumed guilty: there is virtually no defence". Regulation of advertising of therapeutic goods in Australia The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine The purpose of the Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine is to apply the best tools of science and reason to determine whether hypotheses are valid and treatments are effective. It will reject no claims because it fits, or fails to fit, some paradigm. It will simply seek justified answers to two questions: "Is it true?" and "Does this treatment work?" The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice (SRMHP) is the only peer-reviewed journal devoted exclusively to distinguishing scientifically-supported claims from scientifically-unsupported claims in clinical psychology, psychiatry, social work, and allied disciplines. Side Effects, Interactions and Warnings About Herbs Side Effects, Interactions and Warnings About Vitamins and Supplements The Skeptic's Dictionary - Alternative Medicine (Robert T. Carroll) Therapeutic Goods Administration (Australia) The Australian community expects that medicines and medical devices in the marketplace are safe and of high quality, to a standard at least equal to that of comparable countries. The objective of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989, which came into effect on 15 February 1991, is to provide a national framework for the regulation of therapeutic goods in Australia and ensure their quality, safety and efficacy. Therapeutic Goods Administration (Australia) - Complaints Resolution Panel Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code Council (Australia) In Australia all advertisements and generic information provided about Therapeutic Goods directed to the public must comply with provisions of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 and Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990 and the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code (TGAC). "This web site will prove that eating red meat and natural animal fats while restricting carbohydrates is not only healthy but will prevent and cure many diseases". Understanding Cancer Series (National Cancer Institute) "This Web site contains graphic-rich tutorials for educational use by life science teachers, medical professionals, and the interested public" "While our ability to accurately diagnose and treat allergic disease has benefited from scientific understanding of what happens during an allergic reaction, a number of tests and treatments have been promoted in the absence of any scientific rationale. Some non-conventional approaches to disease also claim that various disorders unrelated to allergy have an immune basis. These tests and treatments have been shown to be unreliable when subjected to careful study. ASCIA advises against use of these tests for diagnosis or to guide medical treatment" The Watchtower Society and Medical Quackery
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