NCAHF Newsletter articles from January 2001

NCAHF Newsletter archives from January 2001

Resuming use of official name: The National Council Against Health Fraud, Inc.
January 1, 2001... The Board of Directors of The National Council Against Health Fraud, Inc. (NCAHF) has decided to do business using the organization's legal name and no longer as the National Council for Reliable Health Information (NCRHI). From July/August...

Chiropractic expose now available through NCAHF.
January 1, 2001... Chiropractic: The Greatest Hoax of the Century? By L. A. Chotkowski (Kensington, CT: New England Books, 1998; ISBN 0-9657855-1-3) is now available through NCAHF Book Sales for $15 ($13.50 for NCAHF members) plus $2.50 postage and handling...

Rodham payoff follows Clinton pardon of health huckster.
January 1, 2001... Nostrum promoter Almon Glenn Braswell, who had been convicted of mail fraud and perjury in 1983, was pardoned by President Clinton on January 20th. At the time Braswell, whose marketing companies include Gero Vita International, was the subject...

White House Commission on CAM lacks healthy skepticism.
January 1, 2001... President Clinton appointed James S. Gordon, MD, the director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, DC to chair the newly created White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. Dr. Gordon is the author of...

Bogus health degrees easy to obtain, mislead the unwary.
January 1, 2001... Jack Raso, MS, RD, coordinator of NCAHF's Task Force on Dubious Health Care Credentials, described in Priorities for Health [12(3):28-30, 41; 2000] magazine how he could have obtained for Meenoh Raso summa cum laude diplomas for doctorates in...

Therapeutic Touch practitioners at risk in professional malpractice cases.
January 1, 2001... In the case of Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals [509 U.S. 579 (1993)], the United States Supreme Court established a standard for trial judges to assess whether a "testimony's underlying reasoning or methodology is scientifically valid...

Introduction to quackery provided.
January 1, 2001... John Dodes, DDS, president of the New York Chapter of NCAHF provides a general introduction to the problem of quackery in "Alternative Therapy: An Historical Perspective on Health Fraud," which was published as part of a special section on...

Ontario Medicine amendment Act 2000 is pro-quackery.
January 1, 2001... Bill 2, "An Act to amend to the Medicine Act, 1991," which was passed by the Legislature of the Province of Ontario, Canada on December 21, 2000, appears to relieve maverick physicians of the burden of proof to demonstrate that the potential...

Health authorities act against Tijuana clinics.
January 1, 2001... Baja California state health officials ordered Salt Lake City-based BioPulse International, Inc. to shut down its Tijuana clinic on February 15, 2001. The state's Public Health Service Institute also banned BioPulse International from...

Lords offer recommendations on "CAM".
January 1, 2001... The Select Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Lords included 44 recommendations in its comprehensive report on "Complementary and Alternative Medicine" (CAM) released in November. Many of the recommendations refer to a...

Correction.
January 1, 2001... The last Bulletin Board incorrectly listed Jack Raso, MS, RD as the Secretary on the NCAHF Board of Directors. Mr. Raso was elected to the Board of Directors, but Janice A. Lyons, RN was elected as Secretary.

NCAHF 2001 Annual Membership Meeting June 23rd to follow conference on Healthcare Beyond the Fringe.
January 1, 2001... NCAHF's 2001 Annual Membership Meeting will take place from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Octagon at Mahoney Library on the campus of the College of Saint Elizabeth (http://www.st-elizabeth.edu) located on Convent Road in Morristown, New...

Direction's to the College and the Madison Hotel.
January 1, 2001... Mass Transportation By Air -- Newark International Airport, a Continental hub, is 30 minutes east of the College. LaGuardia Airport and JFK International Airport in New York City are options. * Taxi Service from Newark International...

Conference information: Healthcare Beyond the Fringe.
January 1, 2001... [Updates will be posted at http://www.ncahf.org.] Sponsors College of Saint Elizabeth (Graduate Program in Health Care Management, Graduate Program in Nutrition, Dietetic Internship Program, and Lectures and Concerts Committee); The...