GALILEO'S LAWYER:
Courtroom Battles in Alternative Health, Complementary Medicine and Experimental Treatments

"Galileo's Lawyer tells the story of medical mavericks, that is to say health care practitioners who use unconventional, alternative, unapproved, experimental or integrative medical modalities on conditions like cancer, heart disease, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease and other conditions. Many of these practitioners use dietary or nutritional supplements, herbal remedies or homeopathic products to treat disease or for disease prevention. Many of the treatments used by medical mavericks are not approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). The government, insurance companies and the medical establishment sometimes try to stop these practitioners from treating patients through the use of medical board proceedings, criminal actions and civil lawsuits. This book tells the story of the fight between alternative or complementary health practitioners, their patients and the government." - Richard Jaffe

Here are some useful links to information and organization websites.

The Health Freedom Protection Act - a bill first introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2005 and re-introduced in 2007, would give consumers access to truthful, non-misleading health information and end FDA and FTC censorship by making it easier for manufacturers of vitamins, supplements, and other foods to display health claims on product labels

Support Ron Paul's Health Freedom Protection Act - Send a letter to your Representative asking him/her to support H.R. 2117, the Health Freedom Protection Act.

Free Speech and Dietary Supplements - Ron Paul's Speech on the Health Freedom Protection Act

Voluntary Trade Council - a research center dedicated to antitrust and competition regulation. Working in the tradition of the Austrian School of economics, VTC offers free-market criticism of the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice and other agencies that intervene to prevent the voluntary exchange of goods, services and ideas.

Amerian Herbal Products Association - the National Trade Association and Voice of the Herbal Products Industry. The American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) is the only national trade association that is focused primarily on herbs and herbal products. All of AHPA’s activities are focused on its mission, to promote the responsible commerce of herbal products, and are undertaken to maintain and improve market opportunities for companies that sell herbs, herbal products and other health-related products, and to ensure that consumers continue to enjoy informed access to a wide choice of goods.

Bolen Report - Tim Bolen is a Crisis Management Consultant, and a Consumer Advocate, in the Health Care Industry. He's been in one form of Crisis Management, or another, since 1966. His company, JuriMed - Public Relations & Research Group's business card says "Strategies for Government Besieged Health Professionals." Bolen, in his Crisis Management role, specializes in the problems of cutting-edge health professionals.

Vitamin Lawyer - Counsel Ralph Fucetola JD has been widely recognized as a leading attorney in the Nutrient and Alternative Health fields, receiving numerous awards.

Health Freedom Foundation - If you believe in access to alternative/integrative medicine and dietary supplements and want to make a difference, then this is the place

Citizens for Health - a national nonprofit consumer advocacy group working to broaden health care options, create an integrative health system based on wellness, and advance the freedom to make health choices

National Health Freedom Action - promotes access to all health care information, services, treatments and products that the people deem beneficial for their own health and survival; promotes legislative reform of the laws impacting the right to access

Institute For Health Freedom - An honest source for information about policies that affect your freedom to choose your health care treatments and providers and to maintain your health privacy

Stop FDA Censorship - This site enables you to support legislation to stop FDA and FTC censorship; to become a Health Freedom Activist; and to contribute to the struggle to pass the Health Freedom Protection Act (HR 2117)

Organic Consumers Association - The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is an online and grassroots non-profit 501(c)3 public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability

Herb Research Foundation - the world's first and foremost source of accurate, science-based information on the health benefits and safety of herbs

American Botanical Council - an independent, nonprofit research and education organization dedicated to providing accurate and reliable information on the responsible use of herbs and medicinal plants for consumers, healthcare practitioners, researchers, educators, industry and the media

Live Free Or Die - Our mission is to fight for our First Amendment right to have the FDA act responsibly; reconsidering supplements and the words used to describe them effectively

American Association for Health Freedom - a politically active voice at the federal level for Americans to have the right to access a full range of health care treatment and prevention methods

Natural Solutions Foundation - a non-profit corporation devoted to protecting and promoting health freedom for all Americans

Health Keepers - established as a means to provide educational and legislative information on issues of alternative and natural health

National Health Federation - an international consumer-education, health-freedom organization working to protect individuals' rights to choose to consume healthy food, take supplements, and use alternative therapies without government restrictions

Truth In Wellness - a news source dedicated to bringing you the most accurate health and health-freedom information possible

World Institute of Natural Health Sciences - a non-profit, worldwide institution established to facilitate the defence and support of the natural and alternative health care industries

American Holistic Health Association - an organization that educates the public on the power of the holistic approach

Complimentary Alternative Medical Association - a provider of quality education and accurate information about complementary/alternative medicine - promoting natural, non-toxic healing, health and consumer empowerment

Patients for Alternative Medicine - an organization dedicated to informing patients and concerned individuals about issues which impact access to alternative health care providers, availability of foods supplements, the safety and nutritional value of foods and legislative issues

Emord and Associates - legal firm that specializes in constitutional and administrative law cases before the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal Trade Commission, and other government agencies

International Advocates for Health Freedom - catalyze global opposition to a pharma driven effort to ban consumer access to vitamins and minerals within the therapeutic range via the UN's Codex Alimentarius Commission

American Herbal Pharmacopoeia - The mission of AHP is to promote the responsible use of herbal products and herbal medicines

Herb Med - Categorized, evidence-based resource for herbal information, with hyperlinks to clinical and scientific publications and dynamic links for automatic updating

Alternative Medicine Foundation - Providing consumers and professionals with responsible, evidence-based information on the integration of alternative and conventional medicine

International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements - a database of published, international, scientific literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals, produced by the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health

Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database - Scientific Gold Standard for Evidence-Based, Clinical Information on Natural Medicines

Natural Standard - an international research collaboration that aggregates and synthesizes data on complementary and alternative therapies

Botanical.com - provides herbal information, organic herbs, books and a hyper-text version of A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve

Erowid - a member-supported organization providing access to reliable, non-judgmental information about psychoactive plants, chemicals and related issues

Entheo Media - a community of enthusiasts, scholars and scientists who share a common interest in the role of entheogens as it pertains to human spirituality

FTC Dietary Supplement Advertising Cases - here you can see the dietary supplement "false" advertising cases the FTC has taken against companies such as mine

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