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Science-Based Pharmacy

English - Pharmacy, Pharmacists, Pseudoscience
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Science-Based Pharmacy · 2d ago

Choosing Wisely: Five things Pharmacists and Patients Should Question

Is the health care spending tide turning? Unnecessary medical investigations and overtreatment seems to have entered the public consciousness to an extent I can’t recall in the past. More and more, the merits of medical investigations such as mammograms and just this week, PSA tests are being being
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Science-Based Pharmacy · 2W ago

Should you take expiry dates seriously?

Is is safe to take expired drugs? Are they still effective? Consider this scenario: You’re in good health and take no prescription drugs. You use the following remedies occasionally: Excedrin for the rare migraine Arnica 30CH for bumps and bruises Echinacea capsules, when you feel a cold coming on T
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Science-Based Pharmacy · 3W ago

Gold mine or dumpster dive? A closer look at adverse event reports

All informed health decisions are based on an evaluation of risks and benefits. Nothing is without risk. Drugs can provide an enormous benefit, but they all have the potential to harm. Whether it’s to guide therapy choices or to ensure patients are aware of the risks of their prescription drugs, I s
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Science-Based Pharmacy · 3W ago

Weekend Reading

Posts, columns, and other reading from the past several weeks that I enjoyed – and you may, too. From Science-Based Medicine When it comes to evaluating “alternative” medicine, Consumer Reports gets a black circle Can a chiropractor be a family doctor? Harriet Hall argues no. Cancer care in the U.S.
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Science-Based Pharmacy · 1M ago

Wobenzym N: A closer look at “systemic” enzyme therapy

One of the recurrent themes in alternative medicine is the practice of simplifying complex medical conditions, and then offering up equally simple solutions which are positioned as still being within the realm of science. This approach allows the practitioner to ignore all of the complexity and diff
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Science-Based Pharmacy · 1M ago

Dilutions of Grandeur: It’s World Homeopathy Awareness Week

April 10-16 is World Homeopathy Awareness Week, dedicated by homeopaths to promote an awareness and understanding of homeopathy. I think that’s an excellent idea. Homeopathy is an elaborate placebo system of sugar pills. It doesn’t work. It cannot work.  If it did, physics, biochemistry and pharmaco
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Science-Based Pharmacy · 1M ago

Antivax 101: Tactics and Tropes of the Antivaccine Movement

This is the first of a series of posts adapting a presentation made at The Ontario Public Health Convention in April, 2011. The presentation, “Fighting in the Trenches: Countering Anti-Vaccine Sentiment with Social Media” was a panel discussion from Scott Gavura and Kimberly Hébert: One of the best
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Science-Based Pharmacy · 1M ago

Anti-anti-vax: Getting to the gist

I’m currently putting the finishing touches on a presentation for the The Ontario Public Health Convention next week, where I’ll be speaking, with occupational therapist Kim Hébert, about the anti-vaccine movement and social media (SM): how antivaccine advocates use it, and the challenges and opport
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Science-Based Pharmacy · 2M ago

Is gluten the new Candida?

Much of the therapeutics I was taught as part of my pharmacy degree is now of historical interest only. New evidence emerges, and clinical practice change. New treatments replace old ones – sometimes because they’re demonstrably better, and sometimes because marketing trumps evidence. The same chang
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Science-Based Pharmacy · 2M ago

Food intolerance blood tests have no place in the pharmacy

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 accu
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