American Council of Science and Health

Press releases and articles related to health care fraud and quackery.
http://www.acsh.org/medical/

Center for Quackery Control

Challenges the claims of alternative healers, psychics, and other quacks.
http://www.netasia.net/users/truehealth/

Avoiding Quackery

Offers an Online book with tips on how to protect yourself from quackery.
http://www.thebestmedicalcare.com/book/readbooks_page.htm

Chirobase Practices

Skeptical guide to chiropractic history, theories, and current practices.
http://www.chirobase.org/

Cataract Surgery Fraud

Information about fraud in advertising for cataract surgery.
http://seniorhealth.about.com/health/seniorhealth/library/conditions/blcatsurg.htm

FDA Backgrounder

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.
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1999/699_fraud.html

Fraud in Health Care Links

Helps identifying web sites that offer fraudulent health products and services.
http://www-hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/fraud.html

Spotting Health Fraud

Easy understandable list on how to check health care web sites that promise treatment success too fast and too easy.
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/greenline/00v2/08.html

National Council Against Health Fraud, Inc.

The NCAHF is a USA voluntary health agency that focuses its attention upon health fraud, misinformation and quackery as public health problems.
http://www.ncahf.org/

Fraud and Quackery Internet Resources

Listing of useful web sites related to compiling health care fraud reports.
http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/fraud.html

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Easy-to-read FDA publication about phony medicines and unproven treatments.
http://www.fda.gov/opacom/lowlit/medfraud.html

Canadian Quackery Watch

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.
http://healthwatcher.net/Quackerywatch/

"Operation Cure-all" Targets Internet Health Fraud

FTC law enforcement and consumer education campaign focuses on stopping the quacks.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/1999/06/opcureall.htm

Health Quackery

Provides information on how to spot health quackery.
http://www.nia.nih.gov/health/agepages/healthqy.htm

Quackwatch

Covers unproven and scientifically questionable claims of alternative health therapies, vitamin peddlers, and other health frauds.
http://www.quackwatch.org/