Archive for December, 2011
Retail pharmacy is a competitive business, and these are tough economic times. And as I’ve pointed out before, retail pharmacies are increasingly selling ethically questionable products like homeopathy, positioning them as alternatives to real medicine. So I guess I should not have been surprised when a blog reader, (who is also a very prominent Canadian […]
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Tags: dr. oz, obesity, pharmacy practice
From the Nightingale Collaboration, a UK-based group that is challenging misleading claims in healthcare advertising: We know from what our supporters tell us that there are more than a few pharmacists up and down the country who still either aren’t sure what homeopathy is and even recommend it to some of their customers in the […]
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Tags: homeopathy
As glands go, we don’t give the butterfly-shaped thyroid that straddles our trachea too much thought — until it stops working properly. The thyroid is a bit like your home’s thermostat: turn it high, and you’re hyperthyroid: heat intolerant, a high heart rate, and maybe some diarrhea. Turn it down, and you’re hypothyroid: cold, tired, […]
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Tags: armour thyroid, eltroxin, hypothyroidism, levothyroxine, synthroid, thyroid, tsh
For those interested, I recently spoke with Karen Stollznow for the Point of Inquiry podcast. What is Point of Inquiry? Point of Inquiry is the premier podcast of the Center for Inquiry, drawing on CFI’s relationship with the leading minds of the day including Nobel Prize-winning scientists, public intellectuals, social critics and thinkers, and renowned […]
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Tags: pharmacy ethics, pharmacy practice, point of inquiry
Having spent many hours working in close proximity to a wall of vitamins, I’ve answered a lot of vitamin questions, and given a lot of recommendations. Before I can make a recommendation, I need to ask some questions of my own. My first is almost always, “Why do you want to take a vitamin?” The […]
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Tags: cobalamins, cyanocobalamin, mercola, vitamin b12
