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EDITORIAL for Monday 17 April 2017
Welcome to the current edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday 17 April 2017. In our last editorial we commented on the floods within the Northern Rivers Region, centred on Lismore after receiving numerous calls from concerned business associates, friends and family. The events that played out had little personal impact on me,…
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Guardrails – Why they Need Continual Analysis and exist with a Balanced Direction
Guardrails “A large, freshly-paved parking lot has no boundaries. You can drive in any direction, free to speed to your destination. But once there’s more than a few cars driving, traffic stops. It’s too risky, there are too many uncertainties. A car could come at you from any direction, and so we crawl. Flow is…
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Complementary Medicine – Are You In or Are you Out?
I’m tired of the same old, same old criticisms of complementary medicines being thrown by sensationalizing media like 4Corners and the like. Mind you, some of their research shows that some pharmacists are happy to bank the dollars generated by the slick marketing of these products by a variety of companies. Where do you sit…
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Robots + AI = Rx Replacement?
In an earlier article (Avatars May Take Over Patient Communications – Where to from there?, I discussed the possibility of pharmacists being able to be displaced, especially in the area of drug information delivery to patients. Big Pharma has always wanted to be able to advertise directly to patients because they know the power of…
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Food Production is now a Serious Health Hazard – The war against small farms
HEALTH IMPACT NEWS: The War Against Small Family Farms in the U.S. Both the USDA and FDA seem to focus on protecting factory farming and all the industries that contribute to BigAg and Big Dairy from competition by smaller, healthier operations. They do this by enforcing regulations meant for factory farms and CAFOs (Confined Animal…
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SAFE VACCINATION DEBATE – 1. Judy Wilyman Report 2. CDC Conspiracy 3. Vaccine Court is a Health Hazard
1. Judy Wilyman Report Head of the School of Health and Society University of Wollongong 3 April 2017 Open Letter copied to UOW Vice-Chancellor, Paul Wellings, Dear Professor Yeatman, My PhD thesis that investigates the science and politics of vaccination policies debunks the claims that are being made by the Australian government about the…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis – 1. A Life of its own – Dan’s Story 2. Cannabis: 100 Reference Studies
1. “A life of its own, the truth about medical marijuana” on SBS Sunday night APR 4, 2017 — Dan’s Story to be shown for the first time on Australian TV on SBS this Sunday Night (9th April). They say a picture is worth a thousand words and this is certainly true of the incredible…
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PSA Media Releases – Gold Medal Award to Canberra Graduate 2. Remuneration Reform Needed for Pharmacists
Canberra graduate honoured with Gold Medal Award April 2, 2017 University of Canberra (UC) pharmacy graduate Dr Kathleen Otto has been honoured with a prestigious Award sponsored by Australia’s peak national body for pharmacists, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA). Dr Otto received the Gold Medal Award, presented at the Canberra Student Pharmacy Association (CaSPA)…
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ASMI Media Releases -1. Time is right for next wave regulatory reform 2. S3 advertising reform opportunity
1.The time is right to examine access to medicines Great opportunity exists with next wave of regulatory reform 7 April 2017 – The Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) has commended the TGA for opening up discussions on ways to streamline, speed up and provide incentives for the process of down-scheduling medicines (‘switch’) so that consumers…
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NPS Media Releases – 1. Reducing Hepatitis C 2. Rheumatic Fever Rates 3.
3 April, 2017 1. REDUCING HEPATITIS C IN AUSTRALIA Australia has the potential to eradicate hepatitis C in the next 10–15 years, according to Associate Professor Simone Strasser, gastroenterologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. Writing in the latest edition of Australian Prescriber, Professor Strasser says that the new oral antiviral treatments for hepatitis C…