National Health Federation


National Health Federation

An organisation that exerts political pressure to secure “health freedom” and “freedom of medical choice” on behalf of alternative medicine practitioners, their families, and “health food” consumers. The organisation has neither medical or scientific affiliations, and subscribes to the belief that organised medicine, the pharmaceutical industry, and other “special interest” groups have controlled legislation that does not serve the interests of the American public in terms of healthcare.

National Health Federation

Fringe medicine An organization that exerts political pressure to secure 'health freedom' and 'freedom of medical choice' on behalf of alternative medicine practitioners, their families, and 'health food' consumers. See Alternative medicine; Cf National Council Against Health Care Fraud, Quackery, Unproven methods for cancer management.