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 […]
Month: December 2015
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]