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Articles
 | Maryland
Businessman
Sentenced for Illegally Marketing Aloe Vera Compounds as AIDS and Cancer
Treatments, December 5, 2001 |
| Buying Medical
Products Online, a new FDA website to help you tell if a Website that
sells medical products is legitimate, what you should do before you buy
medical products online. This site also contains a link to where you can
report problem websites. (HHS
News Release, December 20, 1999) |
| FDA Takes
Action Against Firm Marketing Unapproved Drugs, December 10, 1999. One of
the products is MGN-3, a rice-bran extract, promoted as a treatment for cancer
and HIV. The firm involved is Lane Labs-USA, Allendale, NJ. |
| FDA Warning Letters
for Unapproved HIV/AIDS Test Kits, January 19, 2000 |
| How to Spot
Health Fraud, Paula Kurtzwell, FDA Consumer November / December 1999 |
| FDA Issues
Final Rule on OTC Drug Products Containing Colloidal Silver, saying all
over the counter drug products containing colloidal silver or silver salts are
not recognized as safe and effective and are misbranded. Federal
Register Announcement "Over-the-Counter Drug Products Containing Colloidal
Silver Ingredients or Silver Salts". Pages 44653-44658 [FR Doc. 99-21253] [Text
Format] [PDF
Format], August 17, 1999. |
| Investigators Reports,
Phony Doc Sentenced to Real Jail Time, by Carol Lewis, FDA Consumer,
January-February 1999 |
| Ozone Generator Sentencing - On March 29, 1999, Kenneth
Thiefault and his wife Mardol Barber were sentenced in a Florida court for
their conviction last year on conspiracy, distribution of an ozone generator,
mail fraud, wire fraud, and tax violations. The court sentenced Mr. Thiefault
to 72 months of incarceration (to be followed by 3 years of supervised
release), imposed a $100,000 fine, and ordered payment of $14,400 in
restitution. The court sentenced the Ms. Barber to 33 months of incarceration
(followed by 3 years of supervised release) and imposed a fine of $60,000.
Additionally, the court ordered both defendants to help the IRS compute their
back taxes and banned both defendants from participating in any securities or
telemarketing businesses in the future. The couple were making claims that the
ozone generators can oxidize toxins in the body and cure everything from
gangrene to cancer to AIDS. |
| The MedWatch program
is to enhance the effectiveness of postmarketing surveillance of medical
products as they are used in clinical practice and to rapidly identify
significant health hazards associated with these products. Visit the
MedWatch page and learn how to work with your health care professional to
report possible adverse reactions. The identify of the patient is kept
confidential. |
| MedWatch:
FDA's 'Heads Up on Medical Product Safety , FDA Consumer article
discussing the MedWatch program to improve the safety of drugs, biologics,
medical devices, dietary supplements, medical foods, infant formulas, and
other regulated products by encouraging health care professionals to report
serious adverse events and product defects. (November-December 1998) |
| Businessman Sentenced
to Over Five Years for Selling Bogus HIV-Testing Kits (February 17, 1999)
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| FDA Warns Consumers About
Two Unapproved
Home-Use Test Kits, FDA is advising consumers and pharmacists about two
unapproved, fraudulently marketed home-use test kits distributed by Lei-Home
Access Care.
September 26, 1997 |
| Access to Medical Treatment
H.R. 746, Statement by Lead Deputy Commissioner, FDA (April 22, 1998) |
| An FDA Guide to
Choosing Medical Treatments (June 1995)
Easy to read HTML
format
Easy to read PDF
format |
| Testimony before
Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice, Randolph Wykoff,
M.D., Director of AIDS Office (May 27, 1993) |
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