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Health Fraud
Latest News
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- FDA Says Most Online Drugstores Fake (06/14/2005, United Press International)
Overviews
- Overviews
- 'Miracle' Health Claims: Add a Dose of Skepticism (Federal Trade Commission)
Also available in: Spanish - How to Spot Health Fraud (Food and Drug Administration)
Related Issues
- Related Issues
- Biothreats -- Are Claims to Treat Really Just a Trick? (Federal Trade Commission)
Also available in: Spanish - Buying Diagnostic Tests from the Internet: Buyer Beware! (Center for Devices and Radiological Health)
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Evaluate Claims of Treatment Success (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Health Related Hoaxes and Rumors (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Also available in: Spanish - Over-the-Counter Wrinkle Creams: Miracle or Marketing Myth? (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Pump Fiction: Tips for Buying Exercise Equipment (Federal Trade Commission)
- Rx for Products That Claim to Prevent SARS? A Healthy Dose of Skepticism (Federal Trade Commission)
- Tipping the Scales? Weight-Loss Ads Found Heavy on Deception (Federal Trade Commission)
- Truth about Choosing Medical Treatments
(Food and Drug Administration)
Also available in: Spanish - Use Caution Buying Medical Products Online (Food and Drug Administration)
Directories
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- Who Cares: Sources of Information about Health Care Products and Services (Federal Trade Commission)
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Law and Policy
- Law and Policy
- How to Report Problems with Products Regulated by FDA (Food and Drug Administration)
- Pay It Right! Protecting Medicare from Fraud (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) - Links to PDF
Also available in: Spanish - Reporting Unlawful Sales of Medical Products on the Internet (Food and Drug Administration)
Seniors
- Seniors
- Health Quackery: Spotting Health Scams (National Institute on Aging)
Also available in: Spanish