NCRHI News, 2000 Index

Volume 23, No. 1, Jan/Feb 2000

• FDA To Consumers: "Good Luck with Dietary Supplements"
• Homeopaths, Naturopaths May Miss Serious Illnesses in Children
• Response to Mass Psychogenic Illness
• Avoid the Herb Chaparral
• Washington State Supreme Court Upholds Law Requiring Payment for Alternative Care
• Scientific Validation Claimed for Transcendental Meditation
• Toronto Star Examines Alternative Medicine
• Evaluating Complementary Medicine Research
• NIHCCM Funds Study That Uses Coffee Enemas
• Pharmacist Looks at Alternative Treatments
• Toronto Star Says Alternativists' Peddle "Blind Trust"
• Americans Ignorant of Interactions Between Herbs and Prescriptions
• Chopra's Saga in the Courts
• Nurse Gets Massage - And Liver Damage
• Use of Unconventional Medicine May Have Been Overstated in Past Reports
• Vanadium Caution
• Shark Oil Capsules Contaminated with PCBS

Volume 23, No. 2, March/April 2000

• National Surveys Produce Remarkable Findings on Alternative Health Practices and Dietary Supplement Misuse
• Prevention Magazine Assesses Dietary Supplement Use
• Consumer Reports Reader Survey on Alt Med Use
• Chiropractic Pediatric Care Is Cause for Concern
• Huperzine A for Memory Enhancement?
• Dr Nicholas Gonzales Ordered to Pay Damages in Death of a Cancer Patient Who Was Also Held Responsible for Having Chosen Bogus Therapy
• Hulda Clark Walks

Volume 23, No. 3, May/June 2000

• Weil's Integrative Medicine Program Said to Be "on Financial Ropes"
• Naturotherapist Told Diabetic to Stop Insulin
• Risks to Surgical Patients Using Alt-Comp Medicines
• Child Dies Undergoing "Rebirthing Therapy"
• North American Ginseng Losing Popularity
• Link between Faith And Healing
• Comp Healthcare Going Mainstream
• Nevada Homeopaths Scrap Retry at Expanding Scope of Practice
• Chiropractic Clinics Raided
• Acupuncture Associated with Adverse Events
• Assessing The Quality of Botanical Preparations
• Humana to Settle Alleged Deception for $800,000
• Researchers Find Less Gray Matter in Sociopaths
• Man Tried for Murder when 'Cures' Went Wrong
• Congress Okays Half-Truths (Lies) as Health Claims

Volume 23, No. 4, July/August 2000

• Pat-on-the-Head Cure
• Training Leads to Overconfidence in Physicians' Diagnoses
• Common Sense and Science in Medicinal Herbs

Volume 23, No. 5, September/October 2000

• John H. Renner, MD (1932-2000)
• Message to Council Members About Reorganization
• Another Alt/Comp Med Clinic Closes
• Failure of Alt Medicine Clinics No Surprise To NCRHI
• Risks of Standard vs Nonstandard Medical Care
• Herb-Drug Interactions
• Herbal Sales Down in Mass Market
• Book Delivers on What Usually Is an Unfulfilled Promise to Bridge Gap between Standard And "Natural" Medicine
• ACS's Guide to Complementary and Alternative Cancer Methods
• Bush Campaign Encounters Notorious Health Huckster

Volume 23, No. 6, November/December 2000

• New Designs for COUNCIL Web Site and Newsletter
• Hepatorenal Failure Follows Hydrazine Sulfate Cancer Treatment
• Community Water Fluoridation Efforts Successful in November's Elections
• Probe Investigates Gonzalez Cancer Treatment
• Health Reporting by 60 Minutes Refereed
• Private Regulation Models for Herbal Products Proposed
• Comment: Adverse Events Due to Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Christian Bros. Agree to Stop Selling Laetrile
• Splendid Book Details Medical Device (Aka "Black Box") Quackery
• Alternative Health Practitioners Endorse New Natural Health Labor Organization
• Dutch Quackbuster Chooses Biggest Quacks of the 20th Century