NCAHF Newsletter articles from July 2002

NCAHF Newsletter archives from July 2002

FSMB issues practice guidelines on "CAM".
July 1, 2002... In April the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States (FSMB) adopted as policy "Model Guidelines for the Use of Complementary and Alternative Therapies in Medical Practice" "for state medical boards to use in educating and...

Ornish explains support for WHCCAMP report.
July 1, 2002... Dean Ornish, MD is the president and director of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Sausalito, California and author of five best-selling books. He served on the White House Commission for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy...

Spinal manipulation. (Medical Letter Slams).
July 1, 2002... The Medical Letter, an independent evaluation service for health care providers, issued a statement expressing doubt about the clinical efficacy and safety of spinal manipulation. [Vol. 44 (W1131C) May 27, 2002; www.medicalletter.orgfreedocs/...

NCAHF supports National Fraud Awareness Week. (Medical Letter Slams).
July 1, 2002... NCAHF is an official supporter of the third annual National Fraud Awareness Week (August 4-10, 2002). According to the Web site for the week (www.fraudweek.com): "The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners in conjunction with leading public...

Another aberrant clinic fails. (Medical Letter Slams).
July 1, 2002... Fairview-University Medical Center announced that it will close its Mind Body Spirit Clinic on August 16. The clinic, co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota, opened in 1999 and has been losing hundreds of thousands of dollars per year ever...

Distant healing intentions fail to save its researcher. (Medical Letter Slams).
July 1, 2002... "Psychic" healing promoter and psychiatry professor Elisabeth Targ, MD died July 18, sixteen days before her 41st birthday and less than four months after she had surgery (April 5th) for a brain tumor diagnosed as glioblastoma multiforme. Dr....

Proves nothing. (Living Proof).
July 1, 2002... To the Editor of The New York Times Book Review from William M. London, NCAHF Program Director: In her May 12th review of Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny, Natalie Angier wrote that author Michael Gearin-Tosh "put together a semipersonalized...

Cardiology leader reveals his gullibility re: "CAM". (Living Proof).
July 1, 2002... Health fraud persists as a serious public health problem in part because of the failure of leaders in medicine and public health to speak out against the promotion of irrational healthcare methods. In an essay calling for cardiologists to be...