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Health Fraud

Health fraud scams involve selling medicines, supplements, devices, foods, or cosmetics that have not been proven effective. At best, these scams don't work. At worst, they're dangerous. They also waste money and might keep you from getting the treatment you really need.

Some of the possible dangers of scam products are that they could:

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  1. Health Fraud (National Library of Medicine)  
    Health fraud scams involve selling medicines, supplements, devices, foods, or cosmetics that have not been proven effective. At best, ... taking Cause serious, even life-threatening, injuries Health fraud scams can be found everywhere, promising help for ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/healthfraud.html - Health Topics
  2. How to Spot Health Fraud (Food and Drug Administration)  
    Evaluating Health Information/Related Issues ... Evaluating Health Information ... Health Fraud/Start Here ... Health Fraud ... Food and Drug Administration
    https://www.fda.gov/.../how-spot-health-fraud - External Health Links
  3. 6 Tip-offs to Rip-offs: Don't Fall for Health Fraud Scams (Food and Drug Administration)  
    Health Fraud/Start Here ... Health Fraud ... Food and Drug Administration ... A health product is fraudulent if it is deceptively promoted as being effective against ...
    https://www.fda.gov/...ip-offs-rip-offs-dont-fall-health-fraud-scams - External Health Links
  4. Protecting yourself from cancer scams 
    If you or a loved one has cancer, you want to do everything possible to fight the disease. Unfortunately, there are people or companies ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000847.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  5. Beware of Fraudulent Coronavirus Tests, Vaccines, and Treatments (Food and Drug Administration)  
    COVID-19 Vaccines/Related Issues ... COVID-19 Vaccines ... COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019)/Related Issues ... COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) ... COVID-19 Testing/Related ...
    https://www.fda.gov/...ent-coronavirus-tests-vaccines-and-treatments - External Health Links
  6. Products Claiming to "Cure" Cancer Are a Cruel Deception (Food and Drug Administration)  
    Health Fraud/Specifics ... Health Fraud
    https://www.fda.gov/...ucts-claiming-cure-cancer-are-cruel-deception - External Health Links
  7. Finding and Evaluating Online Resources From the National Institutes of Health (National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health)  
    Evaluating Health Information/Start Here ... Evaluating Health Information ... National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health ... From the National Institutes ...
    https://www.nccih.nih.gov/...finding-and-evaluating-online-resources - External Health Links
  8. Common Health Scams Video (Federal Trade Commission)  
    ... CFG: Translation Menu Español CFG: Secondary Menu Report Fraud Read Consumer Alerts Get Consumer Alerts Visit ftc. ... CFG: Translation Menu Español CFG: Secondary Menu Report Fraud Read Consumer Alerts Get Consumer Alerts Visit ftc. ...
    https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/common-health-scams - Videos
  9. Cancer and Complementary Health Approaches: What You Need To Know From the National Institutes of Health (National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health)  
    Cancer Alternative Therapies/Start Here ... Cancer Alternative Therapies ... Safety and effectiveness information on complementary health approaches for cancer ...
    https://www.nccih.nih.gov/...health-approaches-what-you-need-to-know - External Health Links
  10. Elder Abuse FAQS (Department of Justice)  
    Elder Abuse/Start Here ... Elder Abuse ... Department of Justice
    https://www.justice.gov/elderjustice - External Health Links
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