NCAHF Newsletter articles from November 2000

NCAHF Newsletter archives from November 2000

NEW DESIGNS FOR NCRHI WEB SITE AND NEWSLETTER.
November 1, 2000... Consumer Advocate Stephen Barrett, MD has redesigned NCRHI's Web site to provide easy access to available information. The home page promotes the official corporation name of NCRHI: The National Council Against Health Fraud. Using the Glimpse...

HEPATORENAL FAILURE FOLLOWS HYDRAZINE SULFATE CANCER TREATMENT.
November 1, 2000... A 55-year old man with maxillary sinus carcinoma died of hepatorenal failure after taking, for the first four months following diagnosis, hydrazine sulfate according a regimen recommended on the Kathy Keeton website. He had previously declined...

PROBE INVESTIGATES GONZALEZ CANCER TREATMENT.
November 1, 2000... A special double issue (Nov. 1-Dec. 1,2000) of PROBE, veteran science writer David Zimmerman's monthly newsletter on science, media, policy and health, focuses primarily on Nicholas James Gonzalez, MD, who promotes dubious methods of cancer...

HEALTH REPORTING BY 60 MINUTES REFEREED.
November 1, 2000... In a study by the American Council on Science and Health, each of 97 obtainable transcripts of health stories that aired from 1978 to 1995 on CBS Television's 60 Minutes was reviewed and evaluated for accuracy of reporting by three or more...

CHRISTIAN BROS. AGREE TO STOP SELLING LAETRILE.
November 1, 2000... Christian Brothers Contracting Corporation of Whitestone, New York and its president, Jason Vale, signed a consent decree entered in November 2000 to stop manufacturing, processing, and distributing its amygdalin products referred to as...

DUTCH QUACKBUSTER CHOOSES BIGGEST QUACKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
November 1, 2000... Cornelis Moerman (1893-1988), who invented an anti-cancer diet based on experiments with carrier-pigeons, heads the list of the twenty biggest quacks of the twentieth century announced by C. N. M. Renckens, the chair of VtdK, the Dutch Union...

ADVERSE EVENTS DUE TO TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE.
November 1, 2000... Based on responses by eleven hundred medical and nonmedical practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Australia to a survey mailed by the Health Insurance Commission of the Australian Federal Government, a team of researchers led by Alan...

ALTERNATIVE HEALTH PRACTITIONERS ENDORSE NEW NATURAL HEALTH LABOR ORGANIZATION.
November 1, 2000... The largest network of Complementary and Alternative Medicine practitioners in America announces they have formed a strategic association with the newly formed International Union for the Natural Health, Complementary & Alternative ,Medicine...

SPLENDID BOOK DETAILS MEDICAL DEVICE (AKA "BLACK BOX") QUACKERY.
November 1, 2000... McCoy, Bob. Quack! Tales of Medical Fraud from the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices. Santa Monica Press, 2000. 240 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by William Jarvis. Most readers will immediately recognize the name of Bob McCoy, curator of the...

COMMUNITY WATER FLUORIDATION EFFORTS SUCCESSFUL IN NOVEMBER'S ELECTIONS.
November 1, 2000... Michael W. Easley, DDS, MPH, Director National Center for Fluoridation Policy & Research Although it is the only public health measure routinely subjected to voter referenda, community water fluoridation was adopted successfully in a...

PRIVATE REGULATION MODELS FOR HERBAL PRODUCTS PROPOSED.
November 1, 2000... Writing in the August/September 2000 issue of Policy Review (pp. 15-25), Hoover Institution fellow Henry I. Miller, M.D. and freelance writer David Longtin make a strong case in their paper "Death by Dietary Supplement" that in the U.S....