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• Tips for Dealing with Chronic Pain

  Regardless of how you sustained your original injury, chronic pain can be exceptionally debilitating on a daily basis. Chronic pain can severely impact your motivation for rehabilitating and strengthening your body after a significant injury….

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• Setting SMART Goals

  As the New Year begins, it’s important to think about your short and long term fitness goals for the year. Even if you’ve been on a regular workout routine for years, it can help to reevaluate exactly what you’re looking …

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• Essential Vitamins for Women

  When it comes to vitamins, less can definitely be more. Our bodies can only absorb so much, and if we take too much of a vitamin, the excess amount is passed …

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• What Does a Compounding Pharmacist Do?

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

  You may have seen or heard the word “compounding” at your local pharmacy but have you ever wondered what it meant?

  The World’s Oldest Profession?

  Pharmacy isn’t the oldest, but it’s one …

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• Take the Bite out of Malaria

  It’s an enduring image from Saturday afternoon matinees
  The intrepid explorer clad in safari gear, bathed in sweat, delirious from the effects of malaria in a hammock in a grass hut.

  While malaria …

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• Difficult Pill to Swallow?

  Tips to help the medication go down easier
  Most medications and supplements are put in tablet or capsule because they are bitter and unpalatable.  Swallowing capsules and tablets can be difficult for many people.  Sometime this is because of the size …

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• Custom Flavored Medications from Our Calgary Compounding Pharmacy

  Most liquid medications available today have flavoring added to them.  Medication flavoring is meant to enhance a patient’s ability to take a medication.  Overly sweet flavors or bitter flavors can cause nausea.  This is particularly important for children.  If the …

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• What is Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy?

  Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has gotten a lot of bad press over the last 10 years.  In some studies, it has been suggested that HRT may cause an increase in hormone-sensitive cancers such as breast cancer.  For example, The Women’s …

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• Calgary Compounding Pharmacy – The Medicine Shoppe Crowfoot

  Calgary Compounding Pharmacists know that today’s prescription drugs tend to be mass produced by Pharmaceutical Companies whose focus in on manufacturing drugs that suits the health needs of the masses – not the individual.  Pharmacists in Calgary, who provide …

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