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EDITORIAL for Monday 4 September 2017
Welcome to the current edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday 4 September, 2017. Health policy issues within Australia are “murky” because they do not reflect what is best practice for the Australian public. That poor health policy has a “knock-on” effect into other policy areas, such as social welfare, where unemployed Centrelink…
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The Practice of Self Care – Where it all Begins
The concept and practice of Self Care has been part of pharmacy core business for as long as I can remember. Because of the high costs of the delivery of health care, it is beginning to become more prominent in the minds of health policy planners because Self Care has implications for long-term health benefits…
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What turf war??
Why do we keep apologising so much? I wrote on my Facebook page recently how concerned I was at the perceived turf war between GPs and pharmacists. One of the first comments was that I was “doctor bashing”. It seems normal these days that rational, sensible discussions are a thing of the past. Now, you…
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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service (OMNS) – Media Medicine: Have You No Sense of Decency?
They picked the wrong day to announce that a “Study finds 275,000 calls to poison control centers for dietary supplement exposures.” I am just in the mood to take this on. Why? Because the same poison control centers report zero deaths from any dietary supplement. See for yourself at http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v13n02.shtml Now take a look at the supplement-bashing…
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MARKETING FOCUS – 1. Love your customer more than your products 2. Everybody’s talking brands 3. Promotions Fatigue 4. Unpredictable, Unprecedented 5. The hidden costs of Discounting
1. LOVE YOUR CUSTOMER – MORE THAN YOUR PRODUCTS You’ll have to lift your game (… and lower your prices, too). This clarion-clear message from customers and clients is only now starting to resonate. Responses up to this time have been slow, spasmodic, inconsistent and conspicuously reluctant. Just three years ago the taxi industry was put on…
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Stop procrastinating before it stops you
A third grader had to do a book report, and he chose a Socrates biography. His report consisted of three succinct sentences: Socrates was a philosopher. He talked a lot. They killed him. Not much more to say about brevity. Maybe that’s why U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “Be sincere. Be brief. Be seated.” Another U.S. President,…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis – 1. Addiction Experts Beg Govt. to Scrap Welfare Drug Tests 2. People Who Think Punitive Measures Help Drug Addicts Have Not Seen What I have 3. Single Dose CBD Shown to Reduce Blood Pressure
1. Huffington Post: Addiction Experts Beg Government To Scrap Welfare Drug Tests Aug. 19th, 2017 Some of Australia’s foremost experts on addiction have pleaded for the federal government to scrap its controversial plan to drug test welfare recipients, saying the program’s negative impacts far outweigh its benefits and that it will further swamp an already struggling treatment…
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Safe Vaccine Debate – 1. Cinema Libre: Injecting Aluminium 2. The VaccineReaction.org: Australia’s Draconian Vaccine Laws 3. Dr Judy Wileyman Report: Open Letter to University of Wollongong & Newsletter #170
1. Cinema Libre: Injecting Aluminium In the early 90s, a mysterious muscular disease began to surface among multiple patients in France. A team of doctors in Paris discovered that these patients had developed a new disease called Macrophagic Myofascitis, or MMF, which occurs when the aluminum hydroxide adjuvant from a vaccine remains embedded in the muscle…
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PSA Media Releases – New Professional Support Tools for all Pharmacists
New professional support tools for all pharmacists August 29, 2017 A new practice support and education package to help pharmacists understand their professional responsibilities has been released by the peak national body for pharmacists, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA). Under the recently released Professional Practice Standards Version 5 (PPS V5), the package with new tools…
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ASMI Media Releases – 1. New Vit. E Research 2. Vit. B6 & B12 Important for Health 3. Thanks to Departing Health Secretary
1.Australian researchers challenge landmark meta-analysis of Vitamin E 29 August 2017 Australian researchers at Southern Cross University (SCU) have conducted a study1 that challenges previous research that found an increased mortality in people who took oral Vitamin E supplements. SCU School of Health and Human Sciences researchers Christopher Oliver and Stephen Myers questioned the validity of a…