the treatment and the prevention of the illnesses by the products of natural health (PSN) will make part of the formation of the students of the new program in pharmacy of the Laval university.
At the end of their studies, the future graduates of the Laval university will have received a formation that will allow them to counsel the consumers adequately on the real efficiency of the PSN over-the-counter. They will be as better able to inform them on the possible undesirable effects of the PSN or on the interactions that he / it could have there with other medicines.
The person responsible of the new program, the professor Julianna Juhasz that detains a doctorate in pharmacology and in pharmacognosy (survey of the PSN), esteem that such an approach is henceforth necessary. "The pharmacists are probably the better placed the health professionals to inform the consumers adequately about the PSN over-the-counter, she / it sustains. It is necessary that their training consists of the rigorous scientific survey of these products over-the-counter so that customers can exercise their choices illuminated. "
Within the new program, the apprentices will study pharmacists therefore, for every problem or illness, as well the PSN for which some conclusive data exist that the usually prescribed medicines classic.
Only offered on an optional basis since three years, the course on the PSN attracted about sixty students of the health sciences annually. Only three medical students followed it until now.
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