►March 5, 2004 - Attorney
disbarred - The Journal News - "Filenbaum also represented clients in a
private practice, taking on several cases defending parents' rights not to have
their children vaccinated. He was considered an expert on immunization law,
lecturing on the laws and testifying in other courts on the issue...F. Hollis
Griffin, a longtime public defender who has worked with Filenbaum since 1986,
said many of the cases involving vaccinations were handled by Filenbaum. Griffin
said he lost one Justice Court case as a prosecutor and it was to Filenbaum."
►March 3, 2004 -
Alternative therapists to face new controls in government crackdown - The
Independent, UK - "Rogue practitioners of alternative medicine who try to
exploit patients will be driven out of business under plans announced by the
Government yesterday...One in five people uses alternative medicine regularly,
and there are more therapists than orthodox doctors but no control on standards
of training, ministers said."
►February 28, 2004 -
Netherlands
to crack down on complementary medicine - journal article
(BMJ) - "The
Netherlands is considering tougher laws on practitionersof
complementary medicine after government health inspectorswho were
investigating the death from breast cancer in 2001of the actress and
comedienne Sylvia Millecam severely criticisedher treatment...The
investigators found that alternative practitioners contradictedthe
diagnosis of breast cancer made by her doctors and offeredher
instead the prospect of a cure with 'unfounded methods of
treatment.'"
Comment: Would that unfounded allopathic methods
of treatment and misdiagnoses were eyed with the same level of scrutiny.
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