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Organise online to succeed offline – the connected world
Business online architecture is driven by the culture of cloud computing adapted for use with mobile technologies. And it creates a “constantly connected” environment that we either master to serve us in three major themes, or we become slaves to our own electronic environment. Those themes are effectiveness and productivity, balance and awareness, growth and…
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Step out of your comfort zone
A few weeks ago daredevil Nik Wallenda walked – untethered – atop Orlando’s 400-foot high Ferris wheel – as it was spinning. This is the same guy who traversed a tightrope stretched across the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls and between two Chicago skyscrapers. In an interview he said he wants to be an inspiration for…
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Zinc and kidney stones
New research on kidney stone formation reveals that zinc levels might contribute to an increased risk. Research from the University of California, published in PLOS ONE opens a new perspective into the cause of urinary stones and related diseases. We all have patients who are prone to kidney stones. Once you’ve developed a first stone,…
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Gardasil Survivors in Ireland Launch Support Group
The R.E.G.R.E.T. Support Group was launched recently in Ireland by parents of chronically ill teenage girls. These parents blame an injection the girls received at school as the cause of their daughters’ illness. The drug in question is called Gardasil and is being marketed as an anti-cancer vaccine. R.E.G.R.E.T. is an acronym for “Reactions and Effects of Gardasil…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. Aboriginal Health Services & Pharmacists 2. Samuel Turner – QUT Student of the Year
June 15, 2015 National Rural health conference supports PSA’s call for more pharmacists in Aboriginal Health Services Rural healthcare professionals have supported PSA’s Budget submission in calling on the Australian Government to urgently address the lack of medication management and pharmacy services in rural and remote areas. Delegates at the 13th Rural Health conference in Darwin said…
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NPS Media Releases – 1. Statins: See Your Doctor if You Stopped use. 2. Chronic Cancer Pain
15 JUNE 2015 SEE YOUR DOCTOR IF YOU’VE STOPPED YOUR STATIN WITHOUT MEDICAL ADVICE: NPS MEDICINEWISE NPS MedicineWise is today urging anyone who has stopped taking the cholesterol-lowing medicines known as statins without medical advice to make an appointment with their doctor to discuss their medicine choices. A University of Sydney study published in the Medical Journal of…
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PGA Media Release – Consumers to benefit from 6CPA
Consumers to benefit from 6CPA by Executive Director, David Quilty | Jun 10, 2015 The Guild is watching closely the progress of the National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2015 prior to the winter recess of Parliament. This legislation faces an extremely tight timetable in a busy parliamentary program, but it is extremely important that…
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EDITORIAL for Monday 8 June 2015
Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday 8 June 2015. This week we continue to look at marketing approaches and competition that will be disruptive to all of pharmacy unless pharmacy leaders step forward and repair the holes in the fabric of pharmacy. These are not small holes…they are…
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Walmart Is Rolling out a Primary Health Care “whole of store” Concept
It’s not just pharmacy expansion that US retail giant Walmart is changing the face of, but the entire scope of primary health care. This brings them into direct conflict with medical centres and given the massive resources and scale of operations, they are in a position to alter the primary health care market significantly and…
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Pharmacy Needs Education & Training – Who will fill this need?
I recently read an article on leadership in the Harvard Business Review where a distinction was made between training and education and a view that educational establishments collectively over-invest in education and under-invest in training. Typically, higher education prizes knowledge over skills. This produces knowledgeable leaders and managers while training and skills go to those…