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Useful LinksThe following links lead to web sites with information supporting the aims of ACAHF or dealing with matters of concern to ACAHF. A compact version of this list, without annotations, can be found here. This list is derived from a more comprehensive listing at The Green Light, a RatbagsDotCom project.
Free Medline Search at Medportal.com From Test Tube To Patient : New Drug Development in the United States Hahnemann's Organon Of Medicine Read what the inventor of homeopathy thought about medicine. Wonder at how little has changed in homeopathy in 200 years. Free access to evidence-based medicine and research "medical and health consumer information resource containing comprehensive and unbiased information in patient-friendly language from trusted sources on over 1,500 health topics, 70 focused health centers, and more than 11,000 drugs and medications" Dr Polevoy is reviled almost as much as Dr Barrett, and has joined with him in several legal actions against frauds and quacks. "Improving health by reducing harm from misleading drug promotion" Some facts about fluoridation Homeopathy - all the idiocy that fits Homeopathy - how could any honest person sell this rubbish? A large amount of quackery is based on (deliberate?) misrepresentation of what the immune system is and how it works. Here is a brief look at what really goes on. Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust Immunisation - the safest way to protect your child Immunisation Myths and Realities: Responding to arguments against immunisation This book from the Australian federal Health Department is designed to inform immunisation providers of the benefits of immunisation and responses to anti immunisation arguments, addressing myths about immunisation. (483Kb pdf file) Immunisation is a simple, safe and effective way of protecting children against certain diseases. The risks of these diseases are far greater than the very small risks of immunisation. This site provides information on standard childhood immunisation. It is based on accurate information available at this time and will help to make informed decisions about immunisation. Immunization Educational and Training Materials Infectious Diseases in Children The Infectious Diseases Society of America "IDSA's purpose is to improve the health of individuals, communities, and society by promoting excellence in patient care, education, research, public health and prevention relating to infectious diseases". Issues & Concerns in Using Medical Information on the Web Inaccurate information abounds on the Internet. The results of using unverified medical or health information could be dangerous and even deadly. Never apply medical advice or information from the Internet without consulting a medical professional. Anyone can publish on the Net, motivated by the desire to make a profit, by altruism, or even by maliciousness. This site is intended as a source of supplemental factual information on the topic of immunization/vaccination. Since this topic is rife with misinformation, misrepresentation, and blatant fear-mongering, we will carefully document all information with current, verifiable, scientifically credible sources. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) The fight against "attachment therapy" Leandra Smith's Experience with Hulda Clark Quacks love anecdotes. Here's one they don't like. Levels of Evidence for Human Studies of Cancer - Complementary and Alternative Medicine "A classification system has been developed by the National Cancer Institute's PDQ Adult Treatment Editorial Board to allow the ranking of human cancer treatment studies according to statistical strength of the study design and scientific strength of the treatment outcomes (i.e., endpoints) measured. This classification system has been adapted to allow the ranking of human studies of complementary and alternative medicine treatments for cancer" Media Doctor is a web site dedicated to improving the accuracy of media reports about new medical treatments. The Medical Journal of Australia MEDLINEplus: Medical Dictionary MEDLINEplus: Medical Encyclopedia The Adam Health Illustrated Encyclopedia includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations. The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy The Merck Manual of Medical Information - Home Edition This website is designed to give you all the facts about MMR so you can decide for yourself what is best for your child. You will find a massive amount of information about the MMR vaccine covering news stories as they break through to detailed scientific research into safety. MMR: the making of junk science The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices myDr is an Australian healthcare Web site dedicated to providing Australian consumers with the most comprehensive and relevant health information resource in Australia. Narconon is an international drug rehabilitation organisation which claims a presence in 26 countries around the world. This website offers a critical examination of Narconon's claims, contrasting them with the strong body of opposing evidence. The National Association for Chiropractic Medicine "The National Association for Chiropractic Medicine (NACM) is a consumer advocacy association of chiropractors who confine their scope of practice to scientific parameters and seek to make legitimate the utilization of professional manipulative procedures in mainstream health care delivery". National Center for Fluoridation National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome Some real information about shaken baby syndrome to counter the lies told by the people who deny its existence and blame it on vaccines. National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance The National Council Against Health Fraud National Fraud Information Center The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Library of Medicine, Medlineplus Health Fraud National Network for Immunization Information The National Network for Immunization Information (NNii) provides up-to-date, science-based information to healthcare professionals, the media, policy makers, and the public — everyone who needs to know the facts about immunization. National Patient Safety Foundation Quacks love to say that real medicine doesn't do anything to increase patient safety. They are wrong. NCAHF Position Paper on Amalgam Fillings (2002) The New England Journal of Medicine "[T]he Division’s mission is to increase basic knowledge of the pathogenesis, natural history, and transmission of HIV disease and to support research that promotes progress in its detection, treatment, and prevention." The NSW Public Health Bulletin The NSW Public Health Bulletin is produced by the Public Health Division of the NSW Department of Health as an information vehicle for the whole public health community in New South Wales (Australia). "The intelligent guide to good health and longevity through optimal nutrition". This website offers information for consumers on how to recognize health fraud, guidance for businesses on how to market health products and services truthfully, and information about the FTC's initiatives. Opposition To Immunization : A Pattern Of Deception Abstract: Several Internet Web sites opposing childhood immunizations are examined. Those sites that contain citations to scientific papers misrepresent their contents. PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health) PATH's mission is to improve health, especially the health of women and children. An emphasis is placed on improving the quality of reproductive health services and on preventing and reducing the impact of widespread communicable diseases. PATH identifies, develops, and applies appropriate and innovative solutions to public health problems. This is accomplished by exchanging knowledge, skills, and technologies with governmental and nongovernmental partners in developing countries and with groups in need elsewhere. Persiflagers Annotated Compendium of Infections Disease Facts, Opinion and Dogma "The PACID is an electronic guide to Infectious Diseases for use by all medical people. It is a series of hyperlinked pages covering antibiotics, pathogens and diseases" Pharmaceutical & Medical Abbreviation Dictionary A dictionary of over 70,000 medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical & healthcare acronyms and abbreviations. A nice comic strip that tells the story of polio vaccination. Even a child could understand it, although it might be above the intellectual level of most anti-vaccinators. Probability and Statistics -- from MathWorld The abuse or misunderstanding of statistics is endemic in pseudoscience. This site explains many of the tests and terms used in statistics. (Warning - lots of maths, but generally understandable by a lay person.) Pseudodoxia Epidemica : or, Enquiries Into very many Received Tenents And commonly presumed Truths. Sir Thomas Browne's great 1646 treatise on fallible thinking and self-deception. PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. "A podcast review of Quacks, Frauds and Charlatans. Oops. Thats not right. That should be Complementary and Alternative Medicine i.e. CAM" The purpose of this web site is to provide links and information, stimulate debate, and exchange ideas regarding healthcare, health fraud, quackery, alternative medicine, metaphysics, religion, etc., often spiced with sarcasm and humor. The granddaddy of all the anti-quackery sites. Regulation of advertising of therapeutic goods in Australia The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice (SRMHP) is the only peer-reviewed journal devoted exclusively to distinguishing scientifically-supported claims from scientifically-unsupported claims in clinical psychology, psychiatry, social work, and allied disciplines. Side Effects, Interactions and Warnings About Herbs Side Effects, Interactions and Warnings About Vitamins and Supplements Six Common Misconceptions about vaccination and how to respond to them A great deal of information about vaccinations is available to parents. This is good, because parents should have access to any information that will help them make informed decisions about vaccination. However, information is sometimes published that is inaccurate or can be misleading when taken out of context. The Skeptic's Dictionary - Alternative Medicine Study Fails to Show a Connection Between Thimerosal and Autism A refutation of some poor "science". ( Geier MR, Geier DA. Thimerosal in childhood vaccines, neurodevelopment disorders and heart disease in the United States. J Am Physicians Surg. 2003;8:6-11) Therapeutic Goods Administration (Australia) The Australian community expects that medicines and medical devices in the marketplace are safe and of high quality, to a standard at least equal to that of comparable countries. The objective of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989, which came into effect on 15 February 1991, is to provide a national framework for the regulation of therapeutic goods in Australia and ensure their quality, safety and efficacy. Therapeutic Goods Administration (Australia) - Complaints Resolution Panel Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code Council (Australia) In Australia all advertisements and generic information provided about Therapeutic Goods directed to the public must comply with provisions of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 and Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990 and the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code (TGAC). Tips for Investigating Child Fatalities When the anti-vaccinators tell you that people are charged with shaking babies to death after only a cursory investigation, read this and see what really goes on. To Catch a Killer: The Search for the Vaccine to Prevent Poliomyelitis "Two generations of Americans lived in terror of the plague that came from nowhere, felled thousands, had no cure and no treatment, and had a cruelly particular love for children. Then, as suddenly as the disease appeared, it was stopped short. Inspired by the fear this dread disease engendered, empowered by a president who was himself a victim, and funded by the average American seeking to protect the nation's children, scientists searched for a cure. What they found was a preventive, a vaccine" "This web site will prove that eating red meat and natural animal fats while restricting carbohydrates is not only healthy but will prevent and cure many diseases". "This Web site contains graphic-rich tutorials for educational use by life science teachers, medical professionals, and the interested public" Unorthodox Techniques for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Allergy, Asthma and Immune Disorders "While our ability to accurately diagnose and treat allergic disease has benefited from scientific understanding of what happens during an allergic reaction, a number of tests and treatments have been promoted in the absence of any scientific rationale. Some non-conventional approaches to disease also claim that various disorders unrelated to allergy have an immune basis. These tests and treatments have been shown to be unreliable when subjected to careful study. ASCIA advises against use of these tests for diagnosis or to guide medical treatment" www.vaccination.org.au is a collaborative venture between the Northern Rivers Public Health Unit and the Northern Rivers Division of General Practice. Both organisations are working to increase the immunisation rate in the Northern Rivers Vaccination: stop scaring the parents Vaccine Information for the public and health professionals Links for comprehensive information about specific diseases and the vaccines that prevent them. Each page includes a Q & A section, photos and/or video footage, true stories of individuals who have suffered or died from the disease, descriptions of public policies, and references to other resources. The Vaccine Page provides access to up-to-the-minute news about vaccines and an annotated database of vaccine resources on the Internet. "The VRC is dedicated to improving global human health through the rigorous pursuit of effective vaccines for human diseases." "Offering reliable, science-based information on human and veterinary alternative medicine modalities, including acupuncture, homeopathy, chiropractic, herbal medicine, traditional Chinese medicine and energy therapy" The Watchtower Society and Medical Quackery WHO Vaccine Preventable Diseases Monitoring System Country by country statistics about vaccine-preventable diseases WHO: Immunization against diseases of public health importance Immunizations are undoubtedly one of the most effective and safest of health interventions. Nevertheless, implementation of immunization programmes faces many challenges. "Immunization safety" - ensuring and monitoring the safety of all aspects of immunization, including vaccine quality, vaccine storage and handling, vaccine administration and the disposal of sharps - is one such challenge.
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