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17 traditional medicine modalities discriminated against
The 2016 federal elections are really about the control of Australia’s health system. And many special interest groups are using the elections to further their agendas at a time when the election polls are showing a “neck and neck” result between the major parties. One little drama played out recently was the Victorian legislation enacted…
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Why is there a need for the Health Australia Party (HAP)?
Many Australians rely every day on natural medicines and/or the services of a natural health practitioner to maintain their health. Yet this significant contribution to the well-being of grateful ordinary Australians goes largely unacknowledged by politicians, the news media and mainstream medicine. Rather instead we see an extraordinary bias against these therapies, to the point…
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Fish Oil Capsules Get Blamed For Unreported Drug Interactions – Now THERE’S a Surprise . . .
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, May 4, 2016 In what is getting to be known as the anti-dietary supplement journal, JAMA Internal Medicine is at it yet again. The journal recently reported on changes in prescription drug and dietary supplements from 2005 to 2011, with prescription drug use rising from 84.1% to 87.7% and dietary supplements from 51.8%…
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Medical Cannabis – a Product That Clinical Pharmacists Could Match to Chronic Illness
While there has been movement in the right direction in getting medical cannabis on to the market in Australia there are still some glaring anomalies in its introduction and you would have to ask “Why?” Where I live in NSW I am on the fringe of some of the best cannabis growing soils and climate…
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The Latest Research on Holistic Health – Are you up to it?
Pharmacists demand the latest evidence- and research-based information on things related to complementary medicines. Some of us were lucky enough to hear an array of international speakers at the recent Research Symposium presented for the 4th consecutive year by BioCeuticals. And each symposium seems to get better! World renowned neurologist David Perlmutter, paediatric gastroenterologist and…
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You can’t get out what you don’t put in
My friend, motivational speaker Zig Ziglar liked to tell the story of his friend, Walter Hailey. Although he became a star salesman, Hailey’s early career in insurance sales was rough. He endured frustration, anxiety, slammed doors, low sales figures, and uncertainty about his future. One day he grew so discouraged that he went to his…
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The Effects of Cannabis On Weight Loss, Exercise Performance and Insulin Resistance
This report is a collection of news items and research reports related to the effects of medical cannabis. Some of this information is anecdotal and has to be validated by formal clinical trials. But if only a fraction of the results claimed by personal users is correct, then we indeed have a very useful substance within…
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Nutritional Supplement Safety Profile Proven To Be 100 Percent Safe
Editor’s Note: Don’t you get sick and tired of so-called “news” items that deliver alarmist type bytes concerning the safety profile of vitamins, minerals and supplements. It is an endless litany of irrelevant detail promoted by drug manufacturers because they know that if a lie is repeated often enough it becomes the truth. Joseph Goebbels,…
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Confused over chromium?
It’s often difficult to get the true picture when you hear and read a sensational report about a nutritional supplement causing cancer. Erin Brockovich brought chromium into the spotlight because of the 2000 movie and book, in which there was shown to be a link between an elevated cluster of illnesses, including cancer, to hexavalent…
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Engage with Marijuana Opportunities
With the recent announcement by Minister for Health, Sussan Ley, that Australia will have a single licencing system for the controlled cultivation of cannabis, Australia will now have a streamlined system for medical or scientific cannabis development and production which will avoid some of the problems in other countries where it has not been appropriately…