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Editorial For Monday 27 October 2014
Welcome to the current edition of i2P – Information to Pharmacists. This week we have a new article on Ebola and we were pleased to see that two other publications were released just after the i2P alert, the first in any medical publication in Australia. The two publications were Australian Doctor and the Pharmacy Guild…
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Transformational Change in Healthcare and Education
Transformational is the “buzz” word given to that segment of change required to eliminate medical errors and prevent iatrogenic disease from occurring. In September 2013, the Journal of Patient Safety reported that an estimated 400,000 patients die each year in the US due to preventable medical errors. If that number of people were to die…
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Patient – Centred Patient Homes
We are reading a lot about aspirations in terms of attitudes to treatment of patients in transformational health spaces. A culture change drives this thinking because we are aware that health costs as an integrated whole are far too high and that patients do not feel they are in control of their health in any…
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FOUR WAYS TO PREPARE YOURSELF FOR AN EBOLA OUTBREAK
Editor”s Note: The following article is republished from a US newsletter titled “Underground Insider”. It contains sensible and useful information for pharmacists to utilise within their own homes and families, or to pass on to any worried customers/patients. In Australia, we are fortunate that our location provides some defence against viruses such as Ebola, but…
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Marijuana Use Does Not Impact on IQ
A 2012 Duke University study made international headlines when it purported to find a link between heavy marijuana use and IQ decline among teenagers. You can visit this website if you wish to buy medical marijuana! Other researchers questioned the findings almost immediately: Columbia University’s Carl Hart noted the very small sample of heavy users (38) in the…
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Same Mountain
Editor’s Note: i2P finally has a chiropractor writer with the courage to defend his profession. We have given him anonymity to protect him from the Skeptic lunatic fringe who seem to believe they have a divine right to vilify people not of their belief. Much like the Ku Klux Clan. He writes under the pseudonym…
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Ancient Europeans were lactose intolerant for the first 4,000 years they made cheese
As early humans shifted from hunting and gathering to agriculture, their genomes shifted, too. But according to new research, the adaptations that allow us to enjoy dairy products without digestion problems may have arisen much later than expected in some populations. The new study, published Tuesday in Nature Communications, sequenced the genetic information of 13…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. Vaccination National Accreditation 2. Innovative Pharmacist of the Year 3 . National Award for Immunisation Pilot
October 24, 2014 PSA vaccination training course granted national accreditation PSA has gained national accreditation with the Australian Skills Quality Authority for the PSA vaccination training used in the highly successful Queensland Pharmacist Immunisation Pilot (QPIP). The course – APPIMM806A Manage the delivery and administration of injections and immunisations – also forms part of the exclusive PSA Graduate Diploma of Applied…
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ASMI Media Release – Complementary Medicines Improve Health
New Research: Complementary medicines can improve consumer health and reduce costs 15 October 2014. Specific complementary medicines can contribute to improved health and reduced consumer healthcare costs, according to a new study by economic research firm Frost and Sullivan. The study, ‘Targeted Use of Complementary Medicines: Potential Health Outcomes and Cost Savings in Australia,’ which…
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NPS –Information on medical tests
What are medical tests and why are they useful? Medical tests are a range of checks and procedures used to: screen for possible illness diagnose the likely cause of symptoms monitor health conditions or the effects of treatment. Medical tests include pathology tests, such as blood and urine tests, and a range of imaging tests…