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Are Medical Jihadists Becoming a Reality?
In 2011, just six days after the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine came under threat for having run cartoons of the prophet Mohammed, and it subsequently was gutted by a fire bomb. The staff put out a new issue with a cover drawing of a bearded, presumably Muslim man kissing a…
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New Bachelor Degree Physician Assistants
Four new Physician Assistants (PA’s) graduated recently from James Cook University in Queensland. While there has been a small cadre of PA’s building up over the years (50 in total), there has been no significant volume of them stepping in to fill gaps. PA’s have been touted as the answer to doctor shortages in rural…
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Life is what you make it
One of my favorite “Peanuts” cartoons by Charles Schultz has Charlie Brown saying, “I learned something in school today. I signed up for folk guitar, computer programming, stained glass, art, shoemaking, and a natural foods workshop.” “Instead,” he said, “I got spelling, history, arithmetic, and two study periods.” The last panel has Charlie’s companion asking,…
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Magnets – good for your home and car but what about you?
In our homes, there are hundreds of uses for magnets: from securing photos onto the fridge, keeping your cupboard doors shut, to the switches in your front door bell. Because claims have been made that magnets have healing properties, they have found their way into our beds. Can they, in fact, relieve pain? From early…
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Digitally enabled care is fundamental to quality care
Clinicians are more open to utilizing burgeoning healthcare technology as part of their practice, and patients are more receptive to interacting with that technology, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Research Institute report released last month titled “Healthcare delivery of the future: How digital technology can bridge the gap of time and distance between clinicians…
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Health Consumers Want Connected Devices
According to an A&D Medical survey released recently, more than half (56%) of Americans want to monitor their health with connected devices. It is thought that this trend might be mirrored in Australia, as the company also has a physical presence within Australia and US trends seem to be a forerunner for Australia. A&D Medical…
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NPS Media Release – MEDICINES CAN MAKE SKIN MORE SENSITIVE TO THE SUN: NPS MEDICINEWISE
Some medicines can make your skin more sensitive to the sun and this summer season NPS MedicineWise advises Australians to check their medicines packaging for warnings to avoid excessive skin exposure to sunlight and sunlamps. Clinical adviser at NPS MedicineWise, Dr Andrew Boyden says many people may have seen a label on their medicine packaging instructing them to avoid…
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EDITORIAL for Monday 5 January 2015
A Happy New Year and a welcome to this weekly edition of i2P- Information to Pharmacists for Monday 5 January, 2015. In this edition we continue to ensure that our articles have elements that can be utilised for pharmacists in their planning activities given that all the portents for 2015 need to be foundational in…
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Costco to stir the pot in 2015
US retailing giant Costco plans to inject yet more capital into its Australian business as it launches more stores and seeks to muscle in to the petrol station market. This will force the Australian duopoly of Coles and Woolworths to be more competitive. Costco’s revenue surged in 2014 as customers sought out goods ranging from…
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Pharmacists Have the Best Job in the World
The claim that is made by the title of this article refers to a study by a company called “CareerCast” who are a specialist employment agency in the US medical field. For the first time that I can remember they are featuring pharmacists as being in the “must have” job. But they lost my vote…