Naturopathic doctors practising in Saskatchewan may soon have limited prescribing rights, the ability to order basic laboratory tests, and increased regulatory control if Bill 172, The Naturopathic Medicine Act, is passed. The bill, which will undergo its third reading this spring, would replace the Naturopathy Act established in 1954 and revised in 1978, thereby granting naturopathic practitioners the right to prescribe a limited variety of antibiotics, high dosage vitamins, bio-identical hormones, and certain botanical medicines, as well as the right to order blood tests, x-rays, and possibly ultra-sound tests.
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