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...exactly sure when Americans began going to alternative medicine clinics south of the border. As early as 1963, the Hoxsey Clinic had opened in Tijuana with its motto ?run by Americans, for Americans.? And then in 1980, a dying and seemingly desperate Steve McQueen rode off into the sunset in Mexico while seeking laetrile treatments to cure his lung cancer. There may have been hundreds of alternative health clinics at that time. Today, there are only a few dozen...
Dorman pointed out that it took the Food and Drug Administration almost 20 years to end U.S. sales of a phony cancer medicine produced by self-styled "Dr." Harry Hoxsey in Texas. The federal judge presiding over the case was taking the preparation himself to prevent recurrence of what he thought was cancer of the stomach. (It wasn't.) Now, said Dorman, a former nurse of Hoxsey's is making and selling the brew in Mexico...
...Texas Board of Medical Examiners won a substantial but incomplete victory over Harry M. Hoxsey, no M.D., who has attracted thousands of cancer victims to his clinic for treatments which, say medical experts, are useless or worse. District Judge Charles E. Long Jr. issued an injunction barring Hoxsey from 1) practicing medicine in Texas, 2) conducting a business known as the Hoxsey Cancer Clinic, and 3) collecting fees for services to clinic patients treated before May 1, 1957. Unfulfilled was the board's request that the court invalidate a lease agreement between Hoxsey and Dr. (of osteopathy) Harry Taylor...
...Five doctors of osteopathy, full-time employees of the Hoxsey Cancer Clinic in Dallas (TIME, Aug. 9, 1954) were suspended from practice for one year by court order after the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners complained that in associating with Hoxsey they had violated ethics by practicing with 1) a layman, and 2) one convicted of illegal practice at that...
...Pennsylvania State Senator John J. Haluska quit as president of the board at Miners' Hospital in Spangler, Pa., giving the medical staff a clear-cut victory in its fight to keep out the unorthodox Hoxsey treatment for cancer which Haluska championed (TIME...