NCAHF Newsletter articles from March 2002

NCAHF Newsletter archives from March 2002

Taxpayers fleeced by OAM/NCCAM projects.
March 1, 2002... What does the National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM)/National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) have to show after providing grants and awards of close to $110 to individuals and centers from...

Public-health scandal of Tijuana clinics exposed.
March 1, 2002... Last year's crackdown by Baja California regulators on clinics in Tijuana offering expensive, useless treatments promoted as "alternative" medicine has stalled, reported Penni Crabtree and Sandra Dibble as part of a series of articles on the...

Criminally negligent mother avoids prison, retains nursing license.
March 1, 2002... The adoptive mother of Candace Newmaker, the 10-year old victim of a fatal session of the "attachment therapy" called "rebirthing," pled guilty on October 12th to criminally negligent child abuse resulting in death. Jeane Newmaker, a pediatric...

Attachment therapy deemed an unvalidated treatment.
March 1, 2002... "Attachment therapy has many characteristics associated with warning signals of an unvalidated treatment," writes Jean Mercer, PhD, professor of psychology at Richard Stockton College in Pomona, New Jersey in a review of the treatment published...

Silver Fleece Awards given for anti-aging hype.
March 1, 2002... Clustered Water[TM] earned the first annual Silver Fleece Award for Anti-Aging Quackery from S. Jay Olshansky, professor of epidemiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health on February 12th as part of a seminar...

ILC-USA report refutes `anti-aging' medicine hype.
March 1, 2002... A new comprehensive review of the multi-billion dollar U.S. "anti-aging" medicine industry by a blue-ribbon panel of twelve experts in gerontology and medicine organized by the International Longevity Center-USA describes the industry as a...

Prevention panel not swayed by critique of mammography studies.
March 1, 2002... The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) reviewed the widely publicized Nordic Cochrane Collaboration critique of randomized controlled trials of screening mammography (discussed in NCAHF Newsletter Jan/Feb 2002) and concluded that...

Statement on WHCCAMP posted.
March 1, 2002... NCAHF reviewed draft recommendations of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy and issued a statement strongly suggesting that the recommendations "be viewed as unsupported and considered accordingly." See...