''Townsend Letter'', formerly ''Townsend Letter for Doctors'', then ''Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients'', is a periodical focusing on

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which has been in circulation since 1983. The website

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has listed the ''Townsend Letter'' on its list of magazines as non-recommended and fundamentally flawed.Nonrecommended Periodicals
from

. Accessed August 21, 2008.

Abstracting and indexing

''Townsend Letter'' is abstracted and indexed by

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, and the

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* Health publications Alternative medicine publications Publications established in 1983 {{Alt-med-stub