25 August 2010 by Erik Davis
Welcome to the the first installment of Health Canada Approves… a new weekly series designed to introduce you to the wide array of natural health products given the gold seal by Health Canada’s Natural Health Products Directorate. If you’re a regular reader of Skeptic North, you’ll know that we’ve been critical of the NHPD in [...]
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09 August 2010 by Erik Davis
I hope you all caught Scott’s excellent post over at Science Based Medicine last week, comparing the regulatory regimes for natural health products in Canada and the US. This article will pick up one of his points — the weak enforcement of fraudulent health claims — and summarize some investigations I’ve conducted over the last [...]
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07 May 2010 by Mitchell Gerskup
For Naturopathic Medicine Week, I decided to re-write a blog post I wrote a few years ago, discussing the meaning of the term “natural”. I felt that this was relevant to NMW because I feel that naturopaths do a disservice to both their patients and their practice by touting “natural” as the safe and superior [...]
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03 October 2009 by Melany Hamill
This morning it was brought to my attention by a Macleans article by John Geddes that the Canadian Health Food Association has launched a campaign urging people to contact politicians about the problems with the regulation of natural health products. The problem is, they are complaining that too many products are not getting licenses. I [...]
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