Articles tagged with "clinics"

Beauty Clinics are treating people instead of referring them

19 June 2016

Consumer NZ used secret shoppers to visit 46 NZ beauty clinics with a raised skin spot. The issue was such that the undercover person should have been referred to a GP, but 7 of the 46 clinics said that they were able to treat the problem themselves, with lasers, electrocution, needling or cutting.

Sydney IV.ME clinic closed after client hospitalised

28 February 2016

A new trend started recently, when IV "hydration" clinics opened in Australia late last year, called iv.me and the Hangover Clinic. The clinics offer customers a range of treatments, consisting of IV drips with various mixes of saline, vitamins, painkillers and oxygen.

Defrauding the dying

1 May 2006

Mexican cancer clinics continue to do a roaring trade, despite their poor track record.