Category: Insight

When I was eight years old, I could only watch as my father withered away. He was in liver failure and months away from dying. That is, until one phone call. It was a call that said there was a liver available for transplant. That night, the most important man in my life got a new chance to live and I got my daddy back.

At a drug store in Centretown, pills and supplements crowd both sides of an aisle. On one side are pharmaceutical drugs. On the other side are natural health products – alternative medicines and supplements derived from natural sources. This category includes vitamins and mineral supplements, herbal medicines and homeopathic remedies. Both categories are regulated by Health Canada.