Flashcards: Health fraud

Hans Alfred Nieper (23 May 1928 – 21 October 1998) was a controversial German alternative medicine practitioner who devised "Nieper Therapy".

Albert Abrams (December 8, 1863 – January 13, 1924) was an American doctor, well known during his life for inventing machines which he claimed could diagnose and cure almost any disease.

Joachim Boldt (born September 29, 1954) is a German anesthesiologist who was previously considered a leading researcher into colloids.

William Donald Kelley, DDS, MS (November 1, 1925 – January 30, 2005) was an orthodontist who developed the "Kelley cancer therapy", an ineffective alternative cancer treatment based on the unsubstantiated belief that "wrong foods [cause] malignancy to grow, while proper foods [allow] natural body defenses to work".

Generation Rescue is a nonprofit organization that advocates the incorrect view that autism and related disorders are primarily caused by environmental factors, particularly vaccines.

Norman G. Baker (November 27, 1882 – September 10, 1958) was an early American radio broadcaster, entrepreneur and inventor who secured fame as well as state and federal prison terms by promoting a supposed cure for cancer in the 1930s.

James Graham (1745–1794) was a Scottish proponent of electrical cures, showman, and pioneer in sex therapy.

The medical uses of silver include its incorporation into wound dressings, creams, and as an antibiotic coating on medical devices.

Functional medicine is a form of alternative medicine which proponents say focuses on interactions between the environment and the gastrointestinal, endocrine, and immune systems.

Annabelle Natalie "Belle" Gibson (born October 1991) is an Australian app developer, blogger, and alternative health advocate whose marketing platform was founded on her fraudulent claims of having donated significant income to charities, and of having forgone conventional cancer treatments to positively self-manage multiple cancers through diet and controversial alternative therapies.

Gerald Barnbaum (born 1933, in Chicago, Illinois), aka "Gerald Barnes", "Jerold C.

Pharmaceutical fraud involves activities that result in false claims to insurers or programs such as Medicare in the United States or equivalent state programs for financial gain to a pharmaceutical company.

Nicholas James Gonzalez, M.

The Weight Loss Cure "They" Don't Want You to Know About is a weight loss book written by controversial author Kevin Trudeau.

Mirko Beljanski (27 March 1923 – 28 October 1998) was a French-Serbian molecular biologist, notable in the latter part of his career for devising and promoting a number of questionable cancer treatments, and for treating French president François Mitterrand with them.

John Romulus Brinkley (later John Richard Brinkley; July 8, 1885 – May 26, 1942) was a controversial American who fraudulently claimed to be a medical doctor (he had no legitimate medical education and bought his medical degree from a "diploma mill") who became known as the "goat-gland doctor" after he achieved national fame, international notoriety and great wealth through the xenotransplantation of goat testicles into humans.

Ellagic acid is a natural phenol antioxidant found in numerous fruits and vegetables.

Scott S. Reuben (born 1958) is an American anesthesiologist who was Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts and chief of acute pain at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts from February 1991 until 2009 when he was sentenced to prison for healthcare fraud.

Royal Raymond Rife (May 16, 1888 – August 5, 1971) was an American inventor and early exponent of high-magnification time-lapse cine-micrography.

Andrew Jeremy Wakefield (born c. 1957) is a British former gastroenterologist and medical researcher, known for his fraudulent 1998 research paper in support of the now-discredited claim that there was a link between the administration of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, and the appearance of autism and bowel disease.