Legal implications when marketing in health niche

If you are actually recommending treatments, you better be a legally licensed health care provider. If you are just giving information from various studies, make sure to include "according to" in the articles -- and make sure you put a disclaimer that everything you write is for informational purposes only and not meant to prescribe treatment. Products can be described best and safest following information allowed on labels. If it can't be allowed on a label, don't include it in the text unless you can provide a link to valid research that supports what you say.

Right now I'm writing a report about how I saved my dog from bone cancer. I can never suggest that someone else do the same thing, or "here's how", but I can write that "this is what I did and why I did it". Then I have to add the required disclaimer that the report is for informational purposes only and not intended to prescribe treatment - if you are experiencing problems see a physician, yadda yadda.

As long as you have your disclaimers and never tell people that your info is a cure for them (without quotes or links from authorized medical professionals) you should be okay.

EDIT: see post 8 for required disclaimer.

So having a short discalimer at the bottom of the site, or at the beginning of the course, or a disclaimer link at the bottom would be fine?

HeySals advice is good, and from what I've read you need to be careful of any claims. Especially using the word "cures" can lead to problems. Your own experience is just that, your own, and not applicable to anyone else.

you should ask a real lawyer to be safe, all you will get here are opinions from marketers. Which could potentially land you in jail if you take bad advice that you think is good

Here's a couple of reasons to use caution when promoting in the medical field

Kevin Trudeau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
FTC goes after fake news sites touting weight-loss products
A Critical Look at Gary Young, Young Living Essential Oils, and Raindrop Therapy

Well, I am not a doctor or a lawyer, but I can tell you a few things. In the US, it is illegal for ANYONE to openly say that ANY non FDA approved whatever can cure, treat, or diagnose a disease. And when I say ANYONE, I mean even doctors. Sometimes, doctors prescribe stuff that is off label. They aren't even supposed to do THAT. Believe it or not, the FDA doesn't even approve the use of OTC vitamins to treat or cure diseases caused by a deficiency of them. That is one reason why so many view them as simply a way to support the drug companies.

Steve