Don't Believe Every Health Claim You See, Hear or Read

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During the 1800s, snake oil salesmen sold cure-all tonics from the back of wagons. Today, medications promising to cure everything from baldness to AIDS are hawked on television, the Internet and in newspaper advertisements.

A multi-million dollar market, health scams can cost you more than just your hard-earned money, said Steve Berkshire, professor and director of the doctor of health administration program at Central Michigan University.

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Don't Believe Every Health Claim You See, Hear or Read

"People seek out these remedies because of the promise or hope, and the convenience," he said. "And it's nothing new. A big one in the 1940s and 50s was Carter's Little Liver Pills, which probably started the advertising of such products. It was later...

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