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Article: Side effects of natural health products used with prescription drugs under-reported
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- The Hindustan Times
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- July 21, 2007
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Washington, July 21 -- Canadian researchers have cautioned that the adverse effects of the simultaneous use of prescription drugs and natural health products (NHP) are being under-reported, and that health-care professionals and the public may be underestimating the potential risks of combining the two therapies.
Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton conducted a survey of 132 pharmacists. While 47 per cent of pharmacists reported that they had encountered a patient with a suspected adverse event, only 1.5 per cent reported this to Health Canada, the department of the government of Canada with ...