Posts Tagged ‘pharmacy regulation’
For a blog established to examine the role of science in pharmacy practice, I’ve given a disproportionate amount of attention to homeopathy. Which is frustrating, because homeopathy is not something that pharmacists, or the pharmacy profession, should even need to discuss. Unlike herbal remedies, and some supplements, there isn’t even any science to discuss. As […]
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Tags: health canada, homeopathy, natural health products directorate, pharmacy ethics, pharmacy practice, pharmacy regulation, university of Toronto
It’s on almost every pharmacy’s shelves. I’ve written at length about the problems with homeopathy in pharmacies. In fact, it was the subject of my very first post, over three years ago, where I described how homeopathy is an elaborate placebo system, with “remedies” that contain no active ingredients. Homeopathy was “invented” in the late […]
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Tags: homeopathy, pharmacy practice, pharmacy regulation
In a stunning move, the Ontario College of Pharmacists has prohibited Ontario pharmacies from selling health products that are not approved for safety and efficacy by Health Canada. This directive, which takes effect immediately, banishes some of the most questionable “alternative” health products from pharmacy shelves. This message was sent to all pharmacies and pharmacists […]
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Tags: napra, natural health products, nhps, pharmacies, pharmacy regulation
Recently, Australian Skeptics published an open letter to the pharmacists of Australia, asking consumers to take it to their “university trained seller of snake oil”. Click on the link to see the full-sized PDF. Their letter makes several important points:
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Tags: ear candles, ear candling, homeopathy, pharmacy, pharmacy practice, pharmacy regulation
The interest in bioidentical hormone therapy (BHT) has seemingly exploded of late, due in part to celebrity books and daytime television discussion. Suzanne Somers, author of multiple books on BHT, recently made her case for BHT on Oprah. According to Somers, BHT is a veritable “juice of life“; appropriate for women from their twenties right […]
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Tags: bhrt, bioidentical, bioidenticals, cbc, estrogen, hormone, hrt, pharmacy compounding, pharmacy practice, pharmacy regulation, progesterone, suzanne somers
A pharmacist’s education is rooted in the study of the natural sciences. It’s training that lends itself to sorting out novel, science-based therapies from implausible pseudoscience. To the the chagrin of the science-based pharmacist, homeopathic products are widely available at pharmacies in Canada and around the world. Many pharmacists endorse homeopathy and see it as […]
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Tags: ethics, homeopathy, pharmacy practice, pharmacy regulation
