Phony Cancer Treatments Still Around in Our Electronic Age

Last week in Virginia, a man was arrested on charges of posing as a doctor and prescribing phony cancer medication. The arrest is not an isolated incident. Last year, a Northern California man was arrested on charges of practicing medicine without a license and prescribing patients "natural" cures that investigators say included bags of dirt. In 2013, an evangelical minister was sentenced to 14 years in prison for pushing phony herbal supplements on parishioners dying of cancer. Experts testified that the supplements actually contained sunscreen preservative and beef flavoring. Then there's the strange case of Hulda Clark and her "Zapper." Clark's books promoted the electrical device as a means of killing parasites and other pathogens that she claimed were the cause of cancer and other diseases. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) brought charges against companies selling such zappers in 2001 and 2003. According to a friend and colleague, Clark died of cancer in 2009 -- her own device was unable to cure her because of crippling arthritis in her hands. But the zappers can still be purchased online for hundreds of dollars. Fake cancer treatments come in all sorts of forms from liquids to electronics. They also target an array of people, older adults in particular. And many use the internet to ply their trade. Consumers beware The internet is a rich source of websites that sell herbs, creams, and salves. The medicinal properties of these products are generally unsubsta...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news