NCAHF Newsletter articles from September 1999

NCAHF Newsletter archives from September 1999

PRODUCT GLUT MAY SPELL TROUBLE FOR SUPPLEMENT HUCKSTERS.
September 1, 1999... New Rochelle, NY 8/23/99, PRNewswire. The acquisition of General Nutrition Companies (GNCI) by Royal Numico, N.V. this month could be the start of a far-reaching consolidation in the troubled nutritional and natural products industry, according...

ANTI-MALIGNIN ANTIBODY--A SCREENING TEST FOR CANCER?
September 1, 1999... erf@alum.uhs.edu [Editor: I have had numerous inquiries about the Anti-Malignin Antibody Test. The following should help anyone who is going to rely on this test. John H. Renner MD] I am a pathologist, board-certified in both anatomic...

MANNATECH SAYS IT WAS MISLED BY DOCTOR.
September 1, 1999... [c] 1999 LP Bloomberg with permission. On August 20, 1999 Mannatech Inc. said it has cut all ties to the California physician who wrote a now discredited medical journal article used by the nutritional supplements company to sell its pills....

BENEFIT/RISK OF NECK MANIPULATION.
September 1, 1999... An assessment of the benefits and risks of manipulation of the cervical spine (MCS) was done based upon a review of the literature (1925-1997); 177 injuries were reported in 116 articles. The majority of injuries were attributed to manipulation...

HISTORICAL OBSERVATION ABOUT ASTROLOGY.
September 1, 1999... Boston Globe, 7/26/99 p. C2 -- Recently, an astronomer at the Lick Observatory in California found in the institution's library a horoscope cast by the 17th-century astronomer Johannes Kepler for an Austrian nobleman, Hans Hannibal Huetter yon...

EMF RESEARCHER'S MISCONDUCT.
September 1, 1999... In a blow to a research area hungry for credible findings, the federal Office of Research Integrity (ORI) reported last month that a biochemist "engaged in scientific misconduct...by intentionally falsifying and fabricating data and claims" in...