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American Council of Science and Health
Press releases and articles related to health care fraud and quackery.
http://www.acsh.org/medical/
Center for Quackery Control
Challenges the claims of alternative healers, psychics, and other quacks.
http://www.netasia.net/users/truehealth/
Avoiding Quackery
Offers an Online book with tips on how to protect yourself from quackery.
http://www.thebestmedicalcare.com/book/readbooks_page.htm
Chirobase Practices
Skeptical guide to chiropractic history, theories, and current practices.
http://www.chirobase.org/
Cataract Surgery Fraud
Information about fraud in advertising for cataract surgery.
http://seniorhealth.about.com/health/seniorhealth/library/conditions/blcatsurg.htm
FDA Backgrounder
The FDA Backgrounder lists the most common kinds of health fraud. Provides advice on how to spot a quack and where to file a complaint.
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1999/699_fraud.html
Fraud in Health Care Links
Helps identifying web sites that offer fraudulent health products and services.
http://www-hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/fraud.html
Fraud with Hearing Aids
Features fraudulent hearing aid products and provides information on how to report such fraud cases.
http://seniorhealth.about.com/health/seniorhealth/library/prevention/blhearftc.htm
Spotting Health Fraud
Easy understandable list on how to check health care web sites that promise treatment success too fast and too easy.
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/greenline/00v2/08.html
National Council Against Health Fraud, Inc.
The NCAHF is a USA voluntary health agency that focuses its attention upon health fraud, misinformation and quackery as public health problems.
http://www.ncahf.org/
Fraud and Quackery Internet Resources
Listing of useful web sites related to compiling health care fraud reports.
http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/fraud.html
How to Spot Medical and Health Fraud
How to protect yourself from worthless, sometimes dangerous health products by learning some of the sellers' marketing techniques.
http://pharmacology.about.com/health/pharmacology/c/ht/00/07/How_Spot_Medical_Health0963710723.htm
Tip Offs to Rip Offs
Tips on how to spot fraudulent health products.
http://pharmacology.about.com/health/pharmacology/library/weekly/aa991110.htm
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Easy-to-read FDA publication about phony medicines and unproven treatments.
http://www.fda.gov/opacom/lowlit/medfraud.html
Home Medical Equipment Fraud
Online booklet on how to obtain reliable home medical equipment and how to report suspected fraudulent products.
http://www.medicare.gov/publications/pubs/nonpdf/consumerfraud.asp
Canadian Quackery Watch
Monitors the media for reports of medical frauds and quacks. Includes features on individual quacks, pending lawsuits, scientific rebuttals of 'dubious' claims, and related links.
http://healthwatcher.net/Quackerywatch/
"Operation Cure-all" Targets Internet Health Fraud
FTC law enforcement and consumer education campaign focuses on stopping the quacks.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/1999/06/opcureall.htm
Health Quackery
Provides information on how to spot health quackery.
http://www.nia.nih.gov/health/agepages/healthqy.htm
Bunko Squad
Tips and resources on how to spot quackery.
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/5670/bullapr4.html
Quackwatch
Covers unproven and scientifically questionable claims of alternative health therapies, vitamin peddlers, and other health frauds.
http://www.quackwatch.org/
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