NCAHF News, 1990 Index

Volume 13, No. 1, Jan/Feb 1990

• Murder By Faith
• Cancer and Nutrition Misconceptions
• FDA Finds Fewer Pesticide Residues
• Federal Organic Foods Certification Act Proposed
• Combating Cult Mind Control
• L-Tryptophan Tragedy: Time to Review the Proxmire Law
• Canadian "Holistic Health" Harpooned
• Naprapaths Lose Appeal
• Court Dismisses Death Suit against Last Chance Diet Book
• Vitamins against Cancer
• The Worst Weight-Loss Promotions of 1989
• Sunrider Fined for False Advertising
• Charles E. Duvall, DC
• True versus False Herbalism
• Diet amd Health Satellite Symposium Seeks Sites
• Cho Low Tea Fraud
• Heartguide
• Nature's Sunshine
• Fluoride and Cancer
• "Organic Foods" and the Environment

Volume 13, No. 2, March/April 1990

• L-Tryptophan Victims Litigation Group Formed
• Cytotoxic Testing Lab Loses Lawsuit against Critics
• New Study Finds No Fluoride-Cancer Link
• FDA Must Bear Major Blame for L-Tryptophan Tragedy
• FTC Charges Yeast Product with False Advertising
• More on Heartguide
• Consumer's Union Clarifies Diet-Heart Connection
• Herbert Sues National Academy of Sciences
• Protecting Yourself from Bunco and Bunkum
• Hazards of New Age Thinking
• Supplement Use By Cancer Patients
• Naturopathic Practice Standards
• FTC Fines Weight-Loss Company Offering $1,000 Bond
• Fringe Nursing
• California Orders Livingston-Wheeler Clinic to Stop Cancer Therapy
• Canadian Charlatan Exposed (Dr. Trudy R. Bricker)
• Romania's Elena Ceausescu Was a Science Fraud
• A Scientology Experience
• Practices of Oklahoma Chiropractors
• Quack Cancer Books in School Libraries
• Quackery on Campus
• Science and Consumer Protection Degraded as Chiropractic Antitrust Verdict Is Upheld

Volume 13, No. 3, May/June 1990

• Cell Therapy Failure
• Impact of Negative Publicity (Upon Quackery)
• Beware: Patents Do Not Establish Efficacy
• Charges Dropped in Death of Christian Science Child
• Physician Recommends Reforms to Reduce Faith Healing Abuses
• USDE Votes against Recognition of Naturopathic Accreditation Agency
• American Cancer Society Updates Statements on Questionable Therapies
• Subliminal Tapes Criticized
• Educator Explains Why Her University Should Not Start a Chiropractic College
• FTC Fines Program-Length Commercials Promoter
• Registered Nurses Get CE Credit for Crystal Healing Coursework
• Ohio Repeals Religious Immunity Laws
• Plant Nurseries Engaging in Quackery
• NTP Cancer Study Review Vindicates Fluorides
• Outstanding Book on Treating Arthritis and Arthritis Quackery
• L-Tryptophan Exposé Wins Pulitzer for Reporter
• Special Report on Quackery and the Elderly
• Great Earth Settles Fraud Charges
• Psychiatric Disorders Are a Prime Target for Quackery
• Thermography Abuse
• Mississippi Rules against Chiropractic Board in Peer Review Dispute
• Oregon Finds Chiropractic Care Unaffordable
• Oregon Charges Nine Chiropractors with Fraud
• Workers Fired for Refusing to Become Scientologists
• Is the Bureaucracy "Mooning" Science?
• Evaluating Self-Help Psychotherapy Books
• Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome

Volume 13, No. 4, July/Aug 1990

• Booklet about Children Harmed By Religious Medical Neglect
• Health Fraud Case Results in $18 Million Award
• Minimum Standards for Unproved Aids Therapies
• Disease-Prone Personality
• Nutrition Workbook Gives Solid Information
• California Legislators Want to Renege on Diploma Mill Reforms
• Fluoride Will Not Appear in NTP Annual Cancer Report
• Pharmacists' Views of "Alternative" Health Care
• Chronic Fatigue Not Always Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Use of Dirty Trick Spreads
• Sunrider Pays $175,000 Fine
• Reflexology Pseudoscience Making a Comeback
• Organic Produce Failing in the Marketplace
• Ayurvedic Medicine
• Arizona's Weird Medicine
• Could Naturopathy Ever Meet Acceptable Standards?
• NCAHF Attorney Files Letters of Warning
• Promoters Moan over OTA Draft Report
• A Canadian Tragedy (Death of Atikian Child)

Volume 13, No 5, Sept/Oct 1990

• Dispelling Misinformation about Sugar
• Dale Alexander Dies
• Chiropractic Neck Manipulation Results in Quadriplegia
• Appeals Court Reverses Judge, Raw Milk Dairy Held Liable in Death
• OTA Unorthodox Cancer Report Available
• Oregon Delicenses Naturopaths with Faked Credentials
• Doctors' Licenses Suspended over Chelation Therapy
• Fitness Videos Critique
• Latino Health Fraud Conference
• "Traditional Medicine"
• Consumer Attitudes toward Organic Foods
• Chiropractic Care Found Better for Low Back Pain
• Robert Rodale Killed
• Donsbach Behind New Health Plan
• Kentucky Holistic Physician Disciplined
• Anthropologists Challenged to Be More Responsible
• 1990 National Health Fraud Conference: Brief Report

Volume 13, No 6, Nov/Dec 1990

• How Health Fraud Works
• Magicians Who Exposed Fraud
• Toning Tables Fail Test
• Illinois DC Acknowledges Chiropractic Failings
• Health Textbooks Fail to Warn about Quackery
• Tanning Parlor Regulation
• Consumers' Union Publishes New Anti-Quackery Book
• Virginia Livingston-Wheeler Dead at 84
• Questionable Doctors Book
• Pharmacists' Supplement Recommendations Survey
• Complete Book on Nutrition
• Colorado Outlaws Use of Phony Degrees
• Michigan Court Rules against Thermography Use By Chiropractors
• Big Green and Big Lies
• Alternative Cancer Patients Show Lower Survival (Bristol Center study)
• Miracle at Loma Linda?
• Article Details Bizarre Cranial Manipulation Method Used on Learning Disabled Children
• One-A-Day Vitamin Ads Ruled Deceptive
• Society to be Plagued By Crank Ecology Books
• Rx for Extremism: More Skepticism, Less Cynicism
• "Buccaneer Entrepreneurialism"
• Golden Pride Products