Dietary supplement use among academic pharmacists
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Dietary supplement use among academic pharmacists
United States sales of dietary supplements exceeded $18 billion in 2002, indicating that dietary supplement use is common among the American public. This report describes a survey of academic pharmacists and their use of dietary supplements and herbs. To date, most data comes from retail or community pharmacists, so a survey was developed to collect information regarding dietary supplement and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pharmacy Practice (Internet)
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1886-3655
DOI: 10.4321/s1886-36552007000100005