Not unlike the potentially explosive potions players brew in-game, The Quacks of Quedlinburg has managed to bottle contained chaos into a mystifyingly unique tabletop experience. The award-winning ...

April 4 -- The following excerpt comes from Quack!: Tales of Medical Fraud from the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices, the new book from author Bob McCoy. Buy your copy of Bob McCoy's new book ...

Quack doctors -- the so-called snake oil salesmen often depicted with derision today -- not only plied their trade effectively, they left an indelible mark on marketing, reports Charles Osgood on CBS ...

The classic definition of a "quack" -- dating as far back as the 1500s -- is a medical charlatan, a "fraudulent pretender to medical skills." Derived from the old Dutch kwakzalver, or hawker of salves ...

Quacks often offer treatments and cures that are too good to be true They may say they have a secret discovery no one else knows about %u2014 but others want to suppress They also often offer personal ...

“When parents cannot afford to send a child to the school, they send him either to an auto workshop or a clinic. With the passage of time, they graduate as mechanics and doctors, respectively”.

HYDERABAD: Hyderabad division Commissioner Muhammad Abbass Baloch has asked health authorities to launch a decisive action against quacks, unregistered blood banks, pharmacies and dental clinics. "If ...

RORY Kinnear and Rupert Everett star in a new BBC sitcom that aims to have you in stitches – without anaesthetic. Imagine having a medical complaint needing surgery and discovering that the “theatre” ...

The Telangana State Medical Council (TGMC) issued notices to 40 doctors for colluding with unqualified practitioners (quacks). Doctors offered kickbacks to quacks for patient referrals, especially in ...

Covid-19 highlights the conservative reliance on fake experts. By Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist Over the past few days there have been noisy, threatening demonstrations at various statehouses ...