NCAHF Newsletter articles from May 1997

NCAHF Newsletter archives from May 1997

New age nurses refuse to take $1 million challenge.
May 1, 1997... On May 21. Robert J. Glickman informed interested parties that the last of three Therapeutic Touch practitioners (TTPs) had "bailed out." The TTPs had said they would take on the $1 million challenge made jointly by his Philadelphia Association...

Poverty of therapeutic touch "research" exposed.
May 1, 1997... The National Therapeutic Touch Study Group (NTTSG) has published a 180-page Survey of Therapeutic Touch "Research" as of March, 1997. "Research" is placed within quotation marks because it becomes clear that most of the work falls short of what...

Injected herbal tea blamed in cancer patient's death.
May 1, 1997... A 54-year-old Michigan woman died within a few hours after her physician injected Essiac herb tea into her veins as a cancer remedy. Petra Hall, 54, who suffered from chronic leukemia, and her husband Archie, who suffered from malignant melanoma...

Dr. Rosenfeld's Guide to Alternative Medicine.
May 1, 1997... Ann Landers told her readers in early June to "run, don't walk, to your nearest bookstore and spend $25.95 on Dr. Rosenfeld's Guide to Alternative Medicine." People are asking if NCAHF agrees. William Jarvis says that he has not read the book but...

Alt-med's new poster boy Andrew Weil, MD.
May 1, 1997... Last year it was Deepak Chopra, before that, Bernie Siegel, MD--currently, the poster boy for alternative-complementary medicine is Andrew Weil. Weil's bald & bushy-faced countenance peers out at Americans from the cover of Time magazine...