NCAHF News, 1991 Index


November 11, 2020
Volume 14, No. 1, Jan/Feb 1991
  • Fringe Practitioners Profiled (McGarey, Siegel, Fuller, Adams)
  • Worst Weight Loss Scams
  • Sugar, Aspartame and Kids’ Behavior
  • Mental Health Quackery
  • Fat Magnet settles with FTC, to Repay Consumers
  • Demonstrators Disrupt Allergy Workshop
  • Supreme Court Refuses Review of Chiropractic Antitrust Verdict
  • New Book on Cancer Quackery (Dubious Cancer Treatment: A Report on “Alternative” Methods and the Practitioners and Patients Who Use Them. American Cancer Society, Florida Division, 1991)
  • Book Bargain (The Mt. Sinai Complete Book of Nutrition. St. Martin’s, 1990
  • Liability Concerns Close Livingston Clinic
  • Vitamin A Toxicity
  • Food Sensitivities in Children
  • New FDA Commissioner Pledges Tougher Enforcement
  • The British Chiropractic Study Anomaly: Was the Key Patient Satisfaction?
  • ACLU to Aid Pseudomedicine
  • FDA Stops Hydrogen Peroxide Sales
  • “60 Minutes” Dental Mercury Report
  • Paralysis Following Chiropractic Manipulation
  • Clinical Ecologist MD Loses License
  • Mavericks Groan as FDA Moves against Clinic
  • Food Companies Told to Remove Health Claims
  • Insight into the Macrobiotic Diet sham
  • Ayurvedic Docs Promote Unproven AIDS Pills
  • Pharmacists’ Supplement Recommendations Survey
  • Is Today’s Quackery Tomorrow’s Science?
  • NCAHF Members’ Bulletin Board
Volume 14, No. 2, March/April 1991
  • Montana ND Smuggled Bogus Cancer Drugs
  • Psychic Surgery Accomplice Gets Probation
  • Clinical Ecology Guru (William Rea, MD)
  • Food Safety Resource
  • Indiana Teen Permitted Bogus Cancer Remedy
  • Consumers Confused By Food Health Messages
  • Deadly Tanning Pills
  • Grandma Jailed in Child Water Diet Death
  • Supplement Usage
  • A Childhood Chiropractic Patient Experience
  • How Well in California Monitoring Acupuncture Training?
  • Enzymatic Therapy, Inc.
  • Meditation Fails to Stop 200-Ton Locomotive
  • Vitamins & IQ Scandal
  • Chiropractic Association Condemns Patient Recruitment Schemes
  • Health Foods Industry and Naturopaths Conspire
  • Herbert Critiques the Pritikin Program
  • Feds Propose Eliminating DC & DPM Student Loans
  • NCAHF Position Paper on Acupuncture
  • CanCell
  • Reigning In Problem Chiropractors
  • NCAHF Members’ Bulletin Board
Volume 14, No. 3, May/June 1991
  • Nystatin Fails to Relieve Psychological Symptoms (“Yeast Infection”)
  • Pets May Still Become “Certified Nutritionists”
  • Victims Of Chiropractic Group Formed
  • Woman Paralyzed By Chiropractor Awarded $10 Million in Damages
  • James Keller Captured
  • CU Clarifies Dental Mercury Questions
  • Acupuncture for Angina
  • $900,000 Award in Clinical Ecology Malpractice Case
  • Boy Denied Proper Cancer Therapy Dies
  • Desperate Soviets Turn to Quackery and Folk Medicine
  • Spinal Manipulation Not for Rheumatoid Arthritis
  • Time Magazine Hits Scientology
  • Organic Foods Primer
  • Edgar Cayce
  • Health Food Industry Gleeful As Federal Clearinghouse for Nutrition Information Is Established
  • Cancer Study Supports Safety of Fluoridation
  • Chelated Minerals
  • Issues in Nutrition
  • Questionable Cancer Remedy Patients Tested
  • Pharmacist Practiced Pseudomedicine
  • Benveniste Revives Ghost Molecule Theory
  • Jurist Educates Fringe Doctors on How the Approval System Works
  • Mental Depression and the Immune System
  • Doublespeak: Makes Bad Seem Good
  • Beware of “Natural” Eyeglasses
  • The Gambler’s Fallacy
  • “Help Me Find My Lost Puppy”
  • The World Research Foundation
  • NCAHF Members’ Bulletin Board
Volume 14, No. 4, July/Aug 1991
  • Christian Science Church Sued in Child Death
  • New Age Medicine Expose
  • Greek Cancer Cure Proponent Dies
  • Christian Science Waning
  • FDA Fraud Inquiries
  • Magnet Cancer Cure Promoter Fined
  • New NCAHF Resource List Available
  • NCI Tells How to Have Unconventional Cancer Treatments Evaluated
  • Naturopaths Try to Stop Acupuncture Position Paper Publication
  • Heart Disease Quackery
  • Dangerous Doctors
  • 10 Warning Signs of a Dangerous Doctor
  • Origins: Four Basic Food Groups, By Victor Herbert, MD, JD
  • Diabetes Quackery: A Persistent Killer
  • Ayurvedic Medicine
  • NCAHF Members’ Bulletin Board
Volume 14, No 5, Sept/Oct 1991
  • Shark Liver Oil
  • Dental Fillings and MS
  • Pseudomedicine Allowed As Scientific Testimony
  • Hung Jury in Second Atikian Trial
  • Jimmy Keller Convicted
  • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
  • Acupuncture Research Evaluation Supports NCAHF Position
  • Oregon’s Workmen’s Compensation Reform Saving Big $$$
  • Hearing on FDA Regulation of L-Tryptophan
  • Did Quackery Change History?
  • John Robbins’ Diet for a New America (A Critique of the Television Version)
  • NCAHF Members’ Bulletin Board
Volume 14, No 6, Nov/Dec 1991
  • Multilevel Marketing Of Health Products
  • California Acupuncturists Fined for False Claims
  • Immune Plus To Refund Consumers in FTC Case
  • Transillumination Not Reliable for Breast Cancer Screening
  • Complaint Filed over Cholesterol Advertisement
  • Calls for Repeal of Religious Exemptions from Child Health Care Requirements
  • Ayurvedic Docs Guilty
  • Fringe MD Treats Candida with Negative Ions
  • California Warns DCs about Using Electronic Devices
  • Antiquackery Books for Christmas Giving
  • Chiropractor to Pay $565,000 in Damages in Crescent City Child Treatment Case
  • Scientologist Try to Stop Reader’s Digest from Reprinting Time Expose
  • FTC Charges Jeffrey Bland’s Nu-Day Diet Infomercials
  • Naturopathic Accreditation Extended For 3-Years
  • CANHELP Severely Criticized
  • Shortcomings of Weight Loss Treatment Assailed
  • Anti-Immunization Efforts By Chiropractors
  • Nu Skin or Old Scam?
  • Gold Lotion Ineffective For Arthritis Group Says
  • Hair Analysis for Horses?
  • Shark Cartilage
  • Christian Science Mortality
  • New Generation Baldness Remedy Stopped
  • Rampant Deception By Maharishi Ayur-Veda Promoters Exposed
  • Chiros Show Interest in Ayurvedic Medicine
  • Dubious Dental Care
  • NCAHF Members’ Bulletin Board

 


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