Archive for May, 2010
Welcome to Pharmacy 2.0
It’s the not-so-distant future. A new patient tells you that he’s been reading reviews of your pharmacy online. He suffers from a chronic disease and your pharmacy’s specialty services were recommended in an article by a local blogger. Later that day, while you’re talking with a new mom about the safety of routine immunizations for […]
Filed under: articles, updates | Closed
Tags: canadian pharmacists association, canadian pharmacists journal, pharmacy practice, social networking
It’s not a surprise. It’s about six years overdue. Andrew Wakefield will lose his medical license. Yes, the (in)famous Andrew Wakefield, the individual that started the modern antivaccination movement, and drove measles to become endemic in the United Kingdom again, will no longer be practicing medicine in the United Kingdom. It’s all the result of […]
Filed under: announcements | 1 Comment
Tags: andrew wakefield, MMR, vaccines
I’ll be speaking on Friday, May 28, in Toronto, at the Centre for Inquiry about how science advocates can help support better decision-making about health: Despite the dramatic improvements in the extent and quality of our lives, largely owing to modern medicine, our current health care system has fostered a backlash, manifested in part by […]
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Cross-posted from Science-Based Medicine. Imagine you’re an FDA reviewer looking at a new drug application. Drug A relieves a symptom, but doesn’t cure any disease. It doesn’t conflict with other medications. It’s considered safe in pregnant and breastfeeding women. At normal doses, there are virtually no side effects. There’s one unfortunate problem: If you take […]
Filed under: articles | Closed
Tags: drug regulation, otc
New Gig: Science-Based Medicine
An announcement: I’ll be joining the Science-Based Medicine team of bloggers. I’m pretty excited. The Science-Based Pharmacy blog was inspired by the work of Drs. Gorski and Novella, who founded the SBM blog, and I’m honoured to be invited to contribute. Science-Based Medicine is the leading blog about science, medicine, and pseudoscience, and there’s a […]
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Is it ethical for a pharmacist to knowingly sell a mislabeled product – one that contains no active ingredient, and has been demonstrated to be no more effective than a placebo? That’s the question being asked by Dr. Chris MacDonald over at the Business Ethics blog today: If someone selling something believes that it doesn’t […]
Filed under: updates | 8 Comments
Tags: bioron, cbc marketplace, ethics, homeocan, homeopathy
Part Fills For May 1, 2010
An intermittent update of issues of relevance or interest to SBP’s audience.
Filed under: Weekend Reading | 2 Comments
