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EDITORIAL for Monday 25 June 2018
Welcome to the current edition for i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday June 25 2018. While we may have become desensitised to the nightly newsfeed of brutality and violence involving murder, rape, suicide, domestic violence charge, warfare and its aftermath – distressed refugees, graft and corruption; you could be forgiven for thinking that perhaps…
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Bypass the AMA if Collaborative Ventures are Required for Unmet Patient Needs
It is becoming apparent that the medical profession leadership has clearly “lost the plot” in direction-setting, patient engagement and collaborative health when you analyse statements attributable to AMA leaders at their recent national conference. Cries that GP’s feel “under assault” through pharmacists encroaching into “their” territory of vaccinations and sick certificates, with no mention of better…
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What’s going on here?
Interesting reporting from within the medical/pharmacy media about the ego-driven (on both sides) reporting of the pharmacists versus doctors. There’s nothing new here, but why the sensational reporting? It’s even come down to the “evidence” – “you show me yours and I’ll show you mine…….we’ll agree to disagree and then retreat to our professions”. The…
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Many Ordinary Meds Cause Depression; Public Trust in Pharma Hits New Low
For years, I’ve been writing about the medical system’s self-feeding mechanism:Give a patient a drug to treat his symptoms; the drug causes new symptoms, which are diagnosed as a new illness; and then new drugs are given, and those drugs cause still more symptoms, which in turn are diagnosed as a new condition…on and on…
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An Evening With Manuel Cardoso – The Man Who Helped Reform Portugal’s Drug Policy
There was a big turn-out on rainy Sydney evening for drug law reform meeting. Tuesday 5th June 2018. St Stephen’s Church, Macquarie Street, Sydney, for “An evening with Manuel Cardoso – the man who helped reform Portugal’s drug policy”. The take-home message to get through to our politicians: decriminalisation is now proven to save lives, money…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis – 1. CannabisTech: Commercialization Of Hemp-Based Bioplastics 2. The Guardian: All eyes on Canada as first G7 nation prepares to make marijuana legal 3. New Cannabis Ventures: Canadian Clinic Operator to Launch Compass Australia
1. CannabisTech: Commercialization Of Hemp-Based Bioplastics True commercialization of hemp-based plastics could be just around the corner in North America. Hemp is experiencing a revolution, its popularity as a raw material has exploded in recent years thanks to deregulation of hemp in the United States and the growing acceptance of the cannabis sativa plant family…
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The Safe Vaccine Debate – 1. Robert Kennedy’s World Mercury Project: The Big Secret The Mainstream Media Doesn’t Want To Tell You About America’s Soaring Suicide Rates 2. NVIC: The Theory of Herd Immunity Has Nothing to Do With Vaccination 3. Jon Rappoport: Europe under the vaccination gun: an expanding tragedy
1. Robert Kennedy’s World Mercury Project: The Big Secret The Mainstream Media Doesn’t Want To Tell You About America’s Soaring Suicide Rates This week two celebrity suicides rocked the nation, and neither of them seemed to make any sense. Kate Spade’s handbag designs had taken the fashion world by storm, and she was supposedly living the kind of…
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Encouragement Unleashes Potential
Thomas Edison’s teacher said he was a poor student. His mother was furious at that characterization and took him out of school and taught him at home. Edison gave this account of the incident in an interview published on Nov. 29, 1907: “One day I overheard the teacher tell the inspector that I was ‘addled’ and it…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. Exceptional pharmacists receive Queen’s Birthday Honours 2. Empowering more patients to better manage medication 3. PSA welcomes new leaders in Quality Use of Medicines
1. Exceptional pharmacists receive Queen’s Birthday Honours June 11, 2018 Pharmacists Professor Andrew McLachlan FPS and Ms Lorraine Koller were applauded by the peak national body for pharmacists, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) today for receiving Queen’s Birthday Honours. Prof McLachlan and Ms Koller are both based in NSW and were honoured for their…
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NPS Media Releases – New Chief Executive for NPS MedicineWise
New Chief Executive for NPS MedicineWise Following an extensive search, the Board of NPS MedicineWise is delighted to announce the appointment of Mr Steve Morris as the new Chief Executive Officer of NPS MedicineWise. Since 2009, Mr Morris has held the position of Chief Pharmacist for South Australia and in 2012 was also appointed Executive Director of…