- Natural health products that are licensed for sale in Canada have a Natural Product Number (NPN) assigned to it. This should be displayed somewhere on the package.
- With the NPN you can search in the Licensed Natural Health Products Database (LNHPD) from Health Canada to see the product monograph produced by the manufacturer or search e-CPS for this information.
e-CPS AHS Calgary Zone | AHS Cancer Care
e-Therapeutics+ UCalgary
2. What are the active ingredients?
- If there is no NPN, this product may not be licensed in Canada. But we could license similar or equivalent products.
- Locate the active ingredients in the product either by what is advertised on the package, a web search or a search in a Complementary and Alternative Treatments database like Natural Standard or the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
Natural Standard AHS Calgary Zone | AHS Cancer Care | UCalgary - Check e-CPS or LNHPD for products licensed in Canada
3. Check for interactions with other drugs
- Search Lexi-interact
Lexicomp AHS | UCalgary - Search Natural Standard
AHS Calgary Zone | AHS Cancer Care | UCalgary
4. Check for current published studies
- Search Natural Standard
AHS Calgary Zone | AHS Cancer Care | UCalgary - Search NCCAM
- Search MEDLINE/PubMed
MEDLINE AHS Calgary Zone | AHS Cancer Care | UCalgary
PubMed AHS | UCalgary
5. Check for clinical trials
- There are not a lot of studies published on natural health products. A search for Clinical Trials will let you know if there are any current studies in progress and perhaps link you to unpublished results.
- Search clinicaltrials.gov
- Search Biomed Central current controlled trials
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