Useful sites

These are useful to gain insight into pitfalls in using Alternatives to Medicine. Check them out and do your research. Never just accept information at face value from anyone trying to sell you their products. Your health is at stake!

Quackwatch
Quackwatch is an international network of people who are concerned about health-related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct. Its primary focus is on quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere. Founded by Dr. Stephen Barrett in 1969 as the Lehigh Valley Committee Against Health Fraud (Allentown, Pennsylvania), it was incorporated in 1970. In 1997, it assumed its current name and began developing a worldwide network of volunteers and expert advisors

Science Based Medicine
Science-Based Medicine is dedicated to evaluating medical treatments and products of interest to the public in a scientific light, and promoting the highest standards and traditions of science in health care. Online information about alternative medicine is overwhelmingly credulous and uncritical, and even mainstream media and some medical schools have bought into the hype and failed to ask the hard questions.

Traditional and Complementary Division of the Ministry of Health, Malaysia
The official portal of the MOH. Visit this site for updates on legislation and approved TCM bodies in Malaysia.