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Consumer Health Digest #08-13
March 25, 2008
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California State Auditor castigates chiropractic board. The
California State Auditor has released a 119-page report that accuses
the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners of violating State laws and
procedural requirements. The report states that the board dragged its
heels on consumer complaints, violated open meeting laws, and took
other inappropriate actions. Chirobase has posted a summary
http://www.chirobase.org/05RB/CA/summary.html and the full text of
the report. http://www.chirobase.org/05RB/CA/audit.pdf
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TCM diagnostic process blasted.
Acupuncture Watch has summarized seven investigations that found
widespread inconsistencies in the diagnosis and treatment offered by
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners. One study found
that acupuncture literature does not provide a consistent framework
for evaluating patients, and the others found that when multiple
practitioners see the same patient, their TCM diagnoses vary
considerably. The report concludes:
TCM theory and practice are not based upon the body of knowledge
related to health, disease, and health care that has been widely
accepted by the scientific community. TCM practitioners disagree
among themselves about how to diagnose patients and which treatments
should go with which diagnoses. Even if they could agree, the TCM
theories are so nebulous that no amount of scientific study will
enable TCM to offer rational care. [Barrett S. Why TCM diagnosis is
worthless. Acupuncture Watch, March 26, 2008]
http://www.acuwatch.org/reports/diagnosis.shtml
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Cancer scammer loses medical license.
Roy C. Page, M.D. of Memphis Tennessee, has settled charges against
him by permanently surrendering his medical license. The consent
agreement states that between 1997 and 2003, Page treated at least 74
cancer patients with what he referred to as "Gene Activated Therapy"
or "Theracine"-a vaccine said to be developed from blood and tumor
samples taken from the patient.
http://www.casewatch.org/board/med/page/license_surrender.shtml Page
represented that he was conducting research, but he did not file an
Investigational New Drug Application with the FDA or collect any data
for analysis. In 2003, after the FDA notified him that it would seek
to disqualify him as a clinical investigator,
http://www.casewatch.org/board/med/page/notice.pdf Page signed a
consent agreement in which he agreed to permanent disqualification.
In 2004, he pleaded guilty in federal court to a felony drug
misbranding charge, for which he was fined $2,000 and sentenced to
one year of probation.
http://www.casewatch.org/board/med/page/sentencing.pdf
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Australian "Alternative" doctor may lose license.
Dr. Michael Tait is facing disciplinary action by the Medical Board
of Queensland over his nonstandard treatment of nearly 150 mostly
terminally ill cancer patients since 2002. Tait has also been accused
of failing to properly assess his patients' conditions and of
overcharging-with some paying $20,000 for his treatment. In 2007, he
was ordered to stop selling or prescribing apricot kernels (or any
similar substance), immune response therapy, hydrogen peroxide,
photodynamic therapy, or ozone therapy.
http://www.casewatch.org/foreign/tait/conditions.shtml The current
board action could lead to his being struck from the medical
register. Tait founded the International Academy of Cancer Treatment
Alternatives (IACTA), which, according to his Web site, "is becoming
recognised as the world authority on alternative approaches for the
treatment of cancer."
http://www.drmichaeltait.com/about-dr-michael-tait.html In 2006, he
pleaded guilty to nine counts of obtaining and selling human growth
hormone, which is a restricted drug. [McKenna M. Soccer legend's
doctor faces inquiry. The Australian, March 27, 2008]
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23438041-601,00.html
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