April 10-16聽is 鈥淲orld Homeopathy Awareness Week鈥� with the stated aim of 鈥渃elebrating homeopaths and those who have been healed with homeopathy.鈥� While I don鈥檛 think anyone has ever been healed with...
This post needs a bit of a background. A few weeks ago we noted that the Dean of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto was organizing a trial on using homeopathic preparations for the treatment of...
鈥淚t鈥檚 natural medicine.鈥� 鈥淗erbal remedies.鈥� 鈥淚t鈥檚 like鈥cupuncture.鈥� 鈥淣o chemicals.鈥� 鈥淓nergy healing.鈥� 鈥淵ogurt.鈥� Such were the common responses when we asked random people, including physicians,...
On the 鈥淭he Current,鈥� the CBC鈥檚 national morning show, Dr. Heather Boon, Dean of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto, and I had a chance to express our views on the proposed study she is...
Prince Charles has properly derided global warming deniers, calling them a "headless chicken brigade." He went onto say that it was "baffling that in our modern world we have such blind trust in...
Health Canada is set to ban topical mosquito repellants that contain oil of citronella. The oil contains methyleugenol, a compound that has caused liver tumours in rats fed in large doses, but this...
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