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Consumer Health Opportunities
People who are committed to healthful eating and lifestyles are well-informed about ingredients and food labels, and hard to sway with label claims. Yet they don’t fully appreciate the health benefits of frozen fruit and vegetables. Those are a few insights from a new report from Dunnhumby that analyzes the value and behaviors of “health-committed”…
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Marijuana Use Does Not Impact on IQ
A 2012 Duke University study made international headlines when it purported to find a link between heavy marijuana use and IQ decline among teenagers. You can visit this website if you wish to buy medical marijuana! Other researchers questioned the findings almost immediately: Columbia University’s Carl Hart noted the very small sample of heavy users (38) in the…
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Unconditional Expenditure
Editor’s Note: The following brief article by Barry Urquhart has been included as a baseline for pharmacists to consider what “unconditional markets” they may be associated with from within their pharmacy. Barry talks about the metrics of pet food as being one example. Would not pet medicines fit into a similar category? And what about…
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Road to recovery: reversing the effects of binge drinking on mental health
Alcohol binge drinking is bad at any age. But binge drinking if you’re young and have a mental health issue is a recipe for disaster.Hence, join now in outpatient programs to improve mental health and to get rid off alcohol addiction.The good news is that intervening early with appropriate treatments can reverse the harmful effects…
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NPS Media Releases – 1. Asthma Control 2. Fatigue
NEW PHARMACY PRACTICE REVIEW NOW AVAILABLE: ADDRESSING ELEMENTS FOR GOOD ASTHMA CONTROL A new NPS MedicineWise educational activity has been launched specifically for pharmacists to help people achieve better asthma control. Around 50% of people with asthma live with poor control of their condition and consider this to be normal. NPS MedicineWise clinical adviser Dr…
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Tea significantly lowers risk of non-CV death, study reveals
Drinking tea reduces non-cardiovascular mortality by 24%, reveals a study in 131 000 people presented at ESC Congress today by Professor Nicolas Danchin from France. Professor Danchin said: “If you have to choose between tea or coffee it’s probably better to drink tea. Coffee and tea are important components of our way of life. Their…