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AN109 Laboratory Diagnosis and Tests
This course provides a comprehensive reference that offers easy access to the latest information about clinically relevant laboratory and diagnostic procedures. It explains each laboratory and diagnostic test with related information, test descriptions, illustrations and examples. Understanding the purpose of specific diagnostics, when they need to be ordered and how to interpret their results can validate symptomatology findings and help students to make more informed recommendations to clients.
(4.5 credits)
AN110 Nutrition and Pharmacology
This course introduces students to the general principles of pharmacology. Its primary aim is to inform students of the mechanism(s) of action, biochemical and physiological effects, adverse reactions, and therapeutic uses of the most important drug(s) in each pharmacological class. The medications selected for study are those most relevant to the Holistic Nutrition program – those that affect the cardiovascular, gastrointestinal and endocrine systems.
(4.5 credits)