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UK Clinical Services Blocked
“The drive to move pharmacy away from a medicines supply role has made “disappointing” progress over the past year, think tank the Nuffield Trust has said.The sector must “seize the opportunities on offer” or its future over the next decade “looked bleak”, the think tank warned in its report on how attitudes to pharmacy have…
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Remote Interviews Made Easy with Speakset
Planners in health have considered alternatives for helping people “age in place”, living in their own home for as long as they are able. In this technological age we are inundated with “apps” that engage with existing electronic items, principally mobile phones. One new item that could fit into a “pharmacy-in-the-home” project is the UK…
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Vaccines and Genetic Diseases
Recently there has been discussion about the genetic cause of many chronic diseases that have increased in the population in recent decades. These diseases include allergies, asthma, anaphylaxis, autism, diabetes and other neurological and autoimmune diseases: all of which have increased significantly in children after the push to increase vaccination rates in the 1990’s. Whilst…
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OHMS – Reducing Fluoride Exposure
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, December 12, 2014 How to Reduce Exposure to Fluoride by Stuart Cooper, Fluoride Action Network (OMNS Dec 12, 2014) When fluoride was first added to water in the 1940s, in an experiment to prevent tooth decay, not a single dental product contained fluoride: no fluoride toothpastes, no fluoride mouth rinses, no…
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Suddenly DNA Analysis Just Got Cheaper
DNA analysis is something you would usually associate with a laboratory and a lot of complicated and expensive machinery. This could all be about to change when the miniPCR DNA Discovery System, a small DNA analysis kit generating funds on Kickstarter, is launched early next year. The user-friendly system will enable people to investigate their…
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PSA Media Releases – Jeff Hughes Award
December 12, 2014 Professor Jeff Hughes congratulated on prestigious award The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia has congratulated PSA Board member Professor Jeff Hughes on being awarded the 2014Australasian Pharmaceutical Sciences Association (APSA) Medal. The medal is APSA’s highest accolade to recognise excellence and a significant contribution to the pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacy practice. National President of the PSA, Grant Kardachi,…
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A Disappointing Guideline on Methadone Treatment
A disappointing ‘guideline’ on methadone treatment. Methadone Safety Guidelines. Methadone Safety: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American Pain Society and College on Problems of Drug Dependence, in Collaboration With the Heart Rhythm Society. Chou R, Cruciani RA, Fiellin DA, Compton P, Farrar JT, Haigney MC, Inturrisi C, Knight JR, Otis-Green S, Marcus SM, Mehta…
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EDITORIAL for Monday 8 December 2014.
Welcome to this weeks i2P – Information to Pharmacists E-Magazine dated Monday 8 December 2014. The year is rapidly winding up but as we approach 2015 it can be with some excitement, an unusual emotion for pharmacists to embrace given the last few years of disaster. In a study by Price Waterhouse Cooper, pharmacy globally…
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Important Breakthrough in Clinical Room Design
Research has shown that clinical services can be inhibited in pharmacy in the introductory phase of development if the elements of good marketing and management are missing. Marketing is a “communicator” element and the technique of telling a story that communicates the new culture of pharmacy is extremely important. Services are like products and have…
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Own Your Own Work to Build Patient Trust
We now live in a world of science that most of us did not know or even understand when we finished our studies within pharmacy schools at various universities around Australia. Unfortunately that science is now tinged by corruption of evidence by Big Pharma and skewed to an extreme by medical skeptics seemingly supporting orthodox…