It works in partnership with provincial and territorial governments to provide national leadership to develop health policy, enforce health regulations, promote disease prevention, enhance healthy living for all Canadians, and ensure the availability and accessibility of health services to First Nations and Inuit communities. Health Canada Online includes information about health promotion for all age-groups, specific diseases, mental health, drugs, and food and nutrition. It also provides a list of links to other websites of interest. This page within the Health Canada Online website contains product-specific information about drugs approved for use in Canada. Managed by the Therapeutic Products Programme, this database indexes approximately 20,000 products, including human, veterinary, and disinfectant products.
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This website is a source of additional information on some of the herbal products mentioned in Skidmore's 2000 Nursing Drug Reference. It presents monographs that have been translated from material prepared by the German government's Commission E-an expert committee consisting of pharmacologists, physicians, toxicologists, and other authorities on common herbal medicines. This is the website of the national trade organization of the herbal products industry. It has information on symposiums, herbal alerts, how to order information for numerous herbal publications, and an extensive list of links to other herb-related sites. This is the website for the American Holistic Nurses' Association.