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I’ve been thinking about minding the gap, looking right, and a potential blindspot in the medication-use process.
There is little pedestrian about being a pedestrian in the UK. It pays to heed the painted warnings underfoot between the platforms and trains throughout the color-coded labyrinth of the famed Underground—“MIND THE GAP.” It is paramount, however, to heed the painted curbs at nearly every intersection—“LOOK RIGHT.” Perhaps you’ve had your close call with […]
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Ice Pack for Injections Courtesy 3D Printing
Rice University undergraduates have developed a quick and easy way to numb the skin, making shots virtually pain-free. And it could be a value enhancement that might differentiate pharmacy vaccination clinics from those provided by all other health professionals. Getting the flu shot is one of the many rituals that comes once a year, inoculating […]
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PSA Media Releases – 1. Tas.Intern of Year (2014) 2. International Antimicrobial Initiative 3. Change to HIV Dispensing
April 22, 2015 Tasmanian PSA-MIMS Intern of the Year 2014 announced Caitlin Duff, now a community pharmacist in Burnie, has been announced as the PSA MIMS Australia Tasmanian Intern of the Year for 2014. The prestigious award, announced in in Ulverstone, celebrates the achievements of exceptional interns in developing skills for their professional career and who have been […]
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ASMI Media Release – 1. Call for better rather than less regulation of complementary medicines
ASMI calls on Federal Government for better rather than less regulation of complementary medicines 20 April 2015 – The Australian Self Medication Industry today urged the Federal Government to fine tune the regulatory system for complementary medicines, calling for better rather than less regulation of complementary medicines. Dr Deon Schoombie, ASMI Executive Director, said ASMI’s […]
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NPS Media Release – DATIS AND NPS MEDICINEWISE: NEW THREE-YEAR CONTRACT
DATIS AND NPS MEDICINEWISE: NEW THREE-YEAR CONTRACT 22 April 2015 A new three-year contract launched in Adelaide today will see the Drug and Therapeutics Information Service (DATIS) based at the Repatriation General Hospital continue to deliver NPS MedicineWise educational visiting programs to general practitioners (GPs) across South Australia. DATIS, which is part of the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network, […]
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EDITORIAL for Monday 20 April 2015
Welcome to this week’s edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) for the week commencing Monday 20 April 2015. Well, this week it would seem that the whole World is talking about vaccine policy and the elements that are being attempted to be built in to those policies. Australia, it seems, with the help of the […]
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A Clinical Look at Pharmacy
As pharmacies move towards establishing vaccination clinics, pharmacy is experiencing major resistance from medical groups. This was predicted by i2P and in fact we commented that clinical pharmacists would come under scrutiny from a range of sectors that includes doctors, nurses, patients and government agencies, and that scrutiny would be harsher than what they would […]
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Is “The Conversation” Biased?
Editor’s Note: The “No jab, no pay” policy being developed at Australian Government level has brought many vaccine policy activists to the forefront, with polarisation to extreme levels between pro-vaxers and anti-vaxers and a range of other perspectives in between. i2P prefers to support the perspective of “safe-vaxing” as it is definitely not against the […]
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Some questions for Scott Morrison on the ‘no jabs/no pay’ policy
Dear Minister, It appears that your government may withhold Centrelink payments from parents who choose to not vaccinate their children, do so partially, or on a delayed basis. In light of this can you please answer some questions. There is no medical debate that adverse events can occur after vaccination. In some instances they can […]
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I’ve been thinking about SOS, shingles, and the v-word.
SOS is the worldwide signal for distress. When originally used in 1908, the letters did not represent words. Rather, the characters were chosen for the ease with which they could be telegraphed and deciphered via Morse Code. The signal employs perhaps the least ambiguous combinations available: dot-dot-dot, dash-dash-dash, and dot-dot-dot.The maritime call letters quickly evolved into an […]