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September 19, 2004
Tijuana Frauds
It's been a year since I wrote on it, but our community is still be being robbed by the Tijuana conartists that promise cures for Huntington's Disease.
"Live Cell Therapy", whether from (supposedly) a shark or some other animal seems to be the most popular and dangerous scam.
Here's a good article (Part 1, Part 2)on the Tijuana scams from the San Diego Union-Tribune. Here the link and some excerpts:
Live cell
What it is: A therapy that involves injecting into patients living tissue from animal organs, embryos or fetuses.
What’s claimed: Material from the healthy organs, tissue or fetuses of sheep, cows and other animals repair human cellular damage and heal failing organs by stimulating the body’s healing process.
What’s known: There is no evidence that cell therapy is effective in treating cancer or other diseases. Serious side effects can result.
And more...
Yet health-fraud experts and mainstream doctors say the clinics offer little more than a pseudoscientific twist on faith healing, providing ineffective and risky treatments to patients who sometimes deplete their savings and mortgage their homes to pay for them.
Even some staunch supporters of alternative medicine and patient choice are suspicious of Tijuana's offerings.
“The words ‘buyer beware’ should be engraved on a sign over the border,” said Ralph Moss, editor of The Moss Reports, a U.S. publication that reviews promising alternative treatments throughout the world.
Posted by Dave at September 19, 2004 10:05 PM
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