Posts Tagged ‘rexall’
From ethicist Dr. Chris MacDonald, a column on Rexall’s recent advertisements promoting homeopathy: The problem, of course, is there’s no reliable evidence that homeopathy works, nor any plausible reason to think that it even could work. In commercial contexts, that’s pretty bad. And it’s worse still when the company selling the stuff is a company […]
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Tags: ethics, health fraud, homeopathy, pharmacy practice, rexall
From the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: The Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (CSACI) is very concerned about the increased marketing of food-specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) testing towards the general public over the past few years, supposedly as a simple means by which to identify “food sensitivity”, food intolerance or food […]
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Tags: food intolerance, food intolerance tests, food sensitivity, hemocode, IgG blood tests, rexall, yorktest
Imagine your pharmacy features a blood pressure measurement device. It has never worked correctly. Sometimes it give incorrect high results, suggesting hypertension. In other patients it misses hypertension completely. You’ve been advised by hypertension experts that this particular model isn’t accurate and shouldn’t be offered to consumers. Despite this, you continue to promote it to […]
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Tags: cmaj, food allergy, food intolerance tests, food sensitivity, foodscan, hemocode, IgG blood tests, metro morning, naturopath, naturopathy, pharmacy ethics, pharmacy practice, rexall, yorktest
