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MedlinePlus®: Health Fraud
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| | Reliable information from MedlinePlus®, includes an overview of the subject and the topics of law and policy. |
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The Alternative Medicine Homepage: Fraud and Quackery
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| | An excellent collection of reputable websites reporting on fraud in healthcare from the Health Sciences Library System at the University of Pittsburgh. |
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"How to Spot Health Fraud"
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| | The FDA Consumer Magazine online provides this useful article on "How to Spot Health Fraud." The FDA describes health fraud as "articles of unproven effectiveness that are promoted to improve health, well being or appearance," which can be drugs, devices, foods, or cosmetics for human or animal use. |
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Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
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| | This exhibit was created by Bob McCoy and includes items on loan from the AMA and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The actual items are on display at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul, Minnesota. |
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QuackWatch
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| | This site was created by Stephen Barrett, M.D., a retired psychiatrist who now serves as Vice President of the National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF), a private nonprofit, voluntary health agency that focuses upon health misinformation, fraud, and quackery as public health problems. In English, German, Spanish, French and Portuguese. |
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