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Medical crowdfunding raises millions for dubious cures

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Last Updated : Oct 24 2018 | 5:25 PM IST

Online appeals to help sick people by raising money for unfounded and sometimes dangerous treatments and purported cures bring in millions of dollars each year, researchers warned Tuesday.

The study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) looked at crowdfunding activity from 2015 to 2017 and "identified more than 1,000 campaigns that raised nearly USD 6.8 million."
They included "clinics in Germany and Mexico for homeopathic or naturopathic cancer treatments, a New Orleans clinic offering HBOT for brain injury, and clinics in the United States, Panama, Thailand, India, China, and Mexico for stem cell therapies."

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First Published: Oct 24 2018 | 5:25 PM IST

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