The Médiel 2006 edition of a guide to kosher drugs which is exclusively meant for health specialists.
Specialists who take part in this new way of communication make this guide more interactive. They are sometimes the link between the edition board and the Internet surfers whose questions often go beyond the matter of drugs.
Your suggestions are always welcomed and will help us create new headings, such as medical ethics, medicine and Judaïsm, questions to the Rabbinate, etc.
The guide's aim is to help the medical profession to answer an ever growing number of patients who want to respect the food rules imposed by their religion.
The guide does not interfere with the work of physicians who are free to decide which prescription is the best for their patients. It only guides them, whenever it is possible and when the case is not an emergency, towards drugs which meet with the " cacherout " law. It is up to physicians to decide whether they can or cannot give a patient a prescription which will respect his/her religious beliefs. A multidisciplinary team composed of physicians, chemists and computer scientists cooperate each year with the rabbinical authorities to make out this guide.Many areas of medical specializations have not been dealt with in this guide. This is why many drugs are missing. This does not necessarily mean that a missing drug is a non kosher one. Chemists have the right to substitute a drug for another one. But this is not always possible. Please refer to the letter of the French Ministry of Health in the summary.We hope that this new edition will meet your requirements. Please send us your suggestions to help us improve future editions.
We must express our appreciation to all pharmaceutical laboratories who helped us work on the guide.The Mediel Editions.
