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American Council of Science and Health  - http://www.acsh.org/medical/  Press releases and articles related to health care fraud and quackery.  Center for Quackery Control  - http://www.netasia.net/users/truehealth/  Challenges the claims of alternative healers, psychics, and other quacks.  Avoiding Quackery  - http://www.thebestmedicalcare.com/book/readbooks_page.htm  Offers an Online book with tips on how to protect yourself from quackery.  Chirobase Practices  - http://www.chirobase.org/  Skeptical guide to chiropractic history, theories, and current practices.  Cataract Surgery Fraud  - http://seniorhealth.about.com/health/seniorhealth/library/conditions/blcatsurg.htm  Information about fraud in advertising for cataract surgery.  FDA Backgrounder  - http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1999/699_fraud.html  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.  Fraud in Health Care Links  - http://www-hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/fraud.html  Helps identifying web sites that offer fraudulent health products and services.  Spotting Health Fraud  - http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/greenline/00v2/08.html  Easy understandable list on how to check health care web sites that promise treatment success too fast and too easy.  National Council Against Health Fraud, Inc.  - http://www.ncahf.org/  The NCAHF is a USA voluntary health agency that focuses its attention upon health fraud, misinformation and quackery as public health problems.  Fraud and Quackery Internet Resources  - http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/fraud.html  Listing of useful web sites related to compiling health care fraud reports.  U.S. Food and Drug Administration  - http://www.fda.gov/opacom/lowlit/medfraud.html  Easy-to-read FDA publication about phony medicines and unproven treatments.  Canadian Quackery Watch  - http://healthwatcher.net/Quackerywatch/  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.  "Operation Cure-all" Targets Internet Health Fraud  - http://www.ftc.gov/opa/1999/06/opcureall.htm  FTC law enforcement and consumer education campaign focuses on stopping the quacks.  Health Quackery  - http://www.nia.nih.gov/health/agepages/healthqy.htm  Provides information on how to spot health quackery.  Quackwatch  - http://www.quackwatch.org/  Covers unproven and scientifically questionable claims of alternative health therapies, vitamin peddlers, and other health frauds.