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- 5. the practice of disseminating or supplying inaccurate health information, unreliable health care, or ineffective health products for the purposes of defrauding another person.
- 7. insertion of fine needles into the body to alter electroenergy fields and cure disease.
- 8. a system of medical practice in which allopathic principles are combined with specific attention to postural mechanics of the body.
- 9. name used to describe the molecular structure of a drug.
- 13. health providers health care providers who generally see patients on a routine basis, particularly for preventive health care.
- 15. the trend toward individuals taking increased responsibility for prevention or management of certain health conditions.
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- 1. willingness to follow the directions provided by another person.
- 2. specific patented name assigned to a drug by its manufacturer.
- 3. a person who earns money by purposely marketing inaccurate health information, unreliable health care, or ineffective health products
- 4. manipulation of the vertebral column to relieve misalignments and cure illness.
- 6. marketing of unreliable and ineffective services, products, or information under the guise of curing disease or improving health; quackery.
- 7. a system of medical practice in which specific remedies (often pharmaceutical agents) are used to produce effects different from those produced by a disease or injury.
- 10. the use of minute doses of herbs, minerals, or other substances to stimulate healing.
- 11. an ancient form of healing in which herbal preparations are used to treat illness and disease.
- 12. common or nonproprietary name of a drug.
- 14. a system of treatment that avoids drugs and surgery and emphasizes the use of natural agents, such as sunshine, to correct underlying imbalances.