Your pharmacist-approved guide to the drugstore's best remedies
By Astrid Van Den Broek
Updated November 2, 2012
We saw you there with your doggy pyjamas peeking out from under your coat. It was midnight, and you grabbed the first bottle you thought might ease your throbbing head so you could snooze soundly.
Making the late-night drugstore dash again? If so, chances are you may be flushing money down the toilet. Canadians spent $3.6 billion in 2003 on over-the-counter medications, but we're not always buying the best ones, says Anne Marie Picone Ford, a pharmacist in Moncton, N.B. So that you'll know what to look for the next time you're in need, we asked pharmacists – Picone Ford, Donna Kowalishin in Edmonton and Raymond Bannister in Saskatoon – for advice when it comes to stocking up on the best medicine for women.
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