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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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Fighting Spurious Complementary & Alternative Medicine (SCAM)
Hahnemann's Organon Of Medicine
Read what the inventor of homeopathy thought about medicine. Wonder at how little has changed in homeopathy in 200 years.
Health Care Complaints Commission (NSW)
Health Information (Loretta Marron)
Free access to evidence-based medicine and research
"medical and health consumer information resource containing comprehensive and unbiased information in patient-friendly language from trusted sources on over 1,500 health topics, 70 focused health centers, and more than 11,000 drugs and medications"
Dr Polevoy is reviled almost as much as Dr Barrett, and has joined with him in several legal actions against frauds and quacks.
"Improving health by reducing harm from misleading drug promotion"
"Because Crazy Never Sleeps"
The Immune System and the Nervous System
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)
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".
Information for Consumers (Drugs)
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
The fight against "attachment therapy"
Kimball's Biology Pages (John Kimball)
An online version of John Kimball's biology textbook. The first edition of Kimball's general biology text was published in 1965. Since that time it has gone through five revisions, the most recent being the sixth edition which appeared in 1994. He has also published books on cell biology and a widely-used text on immunology. His biology books have also been published in Spanish, German, Japanese, Arabic, Polish, Korean and Indonesian versions.
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
Software for hospital quality control
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 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 Council Against Health Fraud
National Fraud Information Center
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Library of Medicine, Medlineplus Health Fraud
National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (Australia)
National Patient Safety Foundation
Quacks love to say that real medicine doesn't do anything to increase patient safety. They are wrong.
"NPS provides practical tools and information about medicines, health conditions and medical tests. This helps individuals and health professionals be medicinewise, making better informed choices about their health"
National Skin Cancer Awareness Campaign
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."
NIAID's HIV/AIDS Research Program
Hoping to end debate, spur action worldwide, scientists sign statement that HIV causes AIDS
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).
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