NCAHF Newsletter articles from January 1994

NCAHF Newsletter archives from January 1994

Hatch fails to stop FDA rules from taking effect. (Orrin Hatch, dietary supplements regulations)
January 1, 1994... Congress has taken no action on the legislation promoted by Hatch and Richardson that would have removed nearly all accountability from the dietary supplement industry. Hatch managed to get the Senate to agree to a 120-day extension of his...

Natural products for athletic performance.
January 1, 1994... A MEDLINE search to obtain documentation supporting the claims of natural-product manufacturers from 1966 to 1992) found that there was no published scientific evidence to support the promotional claims of 42% of the products; 32% had some...

Cancer device promoter convicted. (Michael Ricotta)
January 1, 1994... A Buffalo, NY area man, 41-year-old Michael Ricotta, was found guilty of fraud for marketing a "miracle cream" that he claimed would cure various ailments and an electronic device called the REM SuperPro Generator which Ricotta claim was curing...

Report critical of Colorado Therapeutic Touch program.
January 1, 1994... A report to the University of Colorado Board of Regents by the Academic Relevance Committee regarding the teaching and use of Therapeutic Touch (TT) at the Center for Human Caring which is part of the UC School of Nursing was made public December...

Strange happening at NIH. (demonstration of Chinese healing art of Qi Gong at the National Institutes of Health)
January 1, 1994... On September 3, the Washington Post described a public demonstration at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Masur Auditorium at Bethesda of the Chinese healing art of Qi Gong. The Post reported that healer Wang-Pong Cheng punctuated a lecture...

Pediatric care by chiropractors scrutinized.
January 1, 1994... According to Pediatric Management (Nov. 1993, pp. 23-34), "chiropractors tally 20 million pediatric visits a year, and many use those encounters to propound bizarre views on immunization and antibiotics." This figure compares with roughly 87...

Psychosocial support cancer therapy fails. (Exceptional Cancer Patients)
January 1, 1994... A 10-year follow-up study of 34 breast cancer patients enrolled in the Exceptional Cancer Patients (ECaP) program at New Haven, Connecticut (the program highly touted by Bernie Siegel MD in his books Love, Medicine and Miracles and Love and...

Natural food report tells story of a cancer "cure" that went wrong. (issue of Natural Foods & Farming)
January 1, 1994... The May/June, 1992 issue of Natural Foods & Farming magazine carried a detailed "Personal testimony" written by a 32-year-old woman who truly believed that she had been cured of her cancer through the use of nutrition. Her story recites the type...

Psychosocial support and cancer survival: with a critical look at the Spiegel study.
January 1, 1994... Elsewhere in this issue we report the failure of the EcaP program to improve the survival time of breast cancer patient& Does this condemn psychosocial support programs? We think not. Common sense alone seems to provide reason enough to believe...

Reflexology study shows positive results.
January 1, 1994... Reflexology is a type of digital pressure massage that is aimed at stimulating "reflex points' on the ear, hand or foot theorized to correspond with specific areas and organs of the body. Reflexologists claim to be able to locate areas of...