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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...
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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,...
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A Strong Message to Pharmacists about IgG Food Sensitivity Testing
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...
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Pharmacist’s Letter issues warning about Hemocode food intolerance testing
From the December, 2012 Canadian Pharmacist’s Letter (paywalled, sorry), a subscription-funded, completely independent resource for pharmacists, comes a warning about the Hemocode food intolerance...
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Weekend Reading
It’s the peak of summer and much of the Eastern seaboard has been melting under record heat. Here’s some links of interest: General Science Gluten is the new MSG: Gluten and MSG intolerance may be...
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A right way, and a wrong way, to promote the role of the pharmacist
The right way: Loblaw Pharmacy Launches Food Allergy Management Assessment Program As part of our ongoing efforts to create allergy-safe communities, Anaphylaxis Canada is pleased to announce a new...
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Food allergies: The stakes are too high for myths and pseudoscience
The price of life is eternal vigilance. If you have severe food allergies, that is your reality. Every day, every meal, every bite. Eating is an intrinsic and essential part of what we do and who we...
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