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EDITORIAL for Monday 21 December 2015
Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday, December 21 2015. We now take a break to join with our own families and celebrate the festive season and will rejoin you after this recess early in January 2016. But what a year 2015 has been, with Pharmacy almost being turned…
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Taking the Initiative with Co-Pay
Chemist Warehouse, as you would have imagined, has taken the initiative to discount the co-pay for PBS prescriptions by $1.00. The impact on a retail pharmacy like the warehouse model is not quite the same as for a community pharmacy, because budgets for retail pharmacies are geared for lower profit percentages combined with higher turnover…
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A Home Doesn’t Need to Have a Single Roof – Because it Might Need to be a Neighbourhood
The “buzz words” floating around the newly discovered world of primary health care are “Patient-Centred Homes”, a concept where a focus is generated on a patient through a triage process where patients are provided an efficient sequential introduction to the health resource most required by those patients under the one roof. Results to date in…
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Shopping
In this ever-changing world we have constant disruption. Beliefs that we once held for marketing concepts are forever changing as consumers react to the environment around them. And the online environment, while having many presentations and converts, is an environment that community pharmacists have yet to fully embrace and conquer. Particularly in the portrayal of…
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Give your self-confidence the boost you need
Walt Disney used to talk about the four Cs to success in life – curiosity, confidence, courage and consistency. He believed that if you applied these four Cs to your life, you could accomplish practically anything. But there was one C that Walt said was the greatest of all – confidence. He said, “When you…
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Interesting weight loss perception
The Australian Doctor online flashed an interesting headline recently titled “10 weight-loss products pharmacists push most”. Other than the offensive tone of the actual headline, it serves a timely reminder that weight loss is not solved by simply selling a product. So, in spite of this belittling attack, let’s look at what is implied here.…
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Type 2 diabetes reversed by losing fat from pancreas
A UK research team based at Newcastle University has made a breakthrough discovery – Type 2 diabetes is caused by fat accumulating in the pancreas, and that losing less than one gram of fat through weight loss reverses the diabetes, researchers have shown. This will obviously trigger research into drugs that can influence the amount of…
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The plausible link between vaccines, autism and other chronic illness
Many Australian parents will be making a difficult decision over the Christmas holidays as they choose between thousands of dollars in welfare benefits or injecting unknown substances into their infant’s developing body. Many of these substances are for mandated vaccines that were only added to the National Immunisation Program (NIP) in 2013 – chickenpox (Varicella), Pneumococcal and…
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Pharmacy Board of Australia – December Newsletter
Message from the Chair Welcome to the final newsletter for 2015 from the Pharmacy Board of Australia (the Board). In this newsletter we provide an update on important topics such as practice advice, the Board’s annual report and registration renewal. Recently we released our 2014/15 annual report, which includes details of the Board’s achievements and…
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NPS Media Releases – 1. Rules for Unnecessary Imaging 2. Seek Advice on Common OTC Medicines Ahead of Holidays
16 DECEMBER 2015 CLINICAL DECISION RULES TO DECREASE UNNECESSARY USE OF MEDICAL IMAGING The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR) have taken the next step in support of their Choosing Wisely Australia® recommendations. RANZCR Dean, Faculty of Clinical Radiology, Dr Greg Slater says the RANZCR clinical decision rules (CDRs) for…