Tristin Hopper: Canadian pharmacies selling pseudoscientific cold remedies to desperate parents

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Tristin Hopper: Canadian pharmacies selling pseudoscientific cold remedies to desperate parents
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As early as the 1840s, controlled trials began to show that homeopathic remedies were exactly as effective as doing nothing

“Parent alert. Be aware that homeopathic remedies do not have to demonstrate that they are effective,” reads an online warning issued this week by Stan Kutcher, a veteran medical researcher and senator for Nova Scotia.Sign up to know what's really happening by reading daily editorials and commentary by British Columbia's opinion leadersBy clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.

In an era of mercury pills and bloodletting, homeopathic remedies would at least avoid killing the patient through malpractice. But as early as the 1840s,One Boiron product advertising itself as a flu remedy, Oscillococcinum, contains And yet, Boiron homeopathic cures can be found sharing the shelves with legitimate cold medicines everywhere from Shopper’s Drug Mart to Rexall to London Drugs.

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