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Understanding Medical Cannabis – 1.CannabisTech: Distillation becomes another invaluable step towards a better understanding of individual cannabinoids. 2. CBD Testers: World Health Organization To Possibly Reschedule Cannabis 3. Jerusalem Post: A higher calling: How Israeli marijuana research changed the world
1.CannabisTech: Distillation becomes another invaluable step towards a better understanding of individual cannabinoids. Short path distillation is an innovative process of cannabinoid separation and recapture. It’s highly technical but has recently become a crucial step in the production of cannabis vape products, edibles, and other refined cannabis products, which require higher purity than which is […]
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Mistakes Are Opportunities To Learn
A young vice president was appointed by the board of directors of a bank to replace the retiring president and founder. With fear and trepidation, he made an appointment to visit with the seasoned retiree to seek his advice. “Mr. Clark, I need your counsel. How can I possibly be successful in this job?” The […]
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Marketing Focus – 1. THE “HAWTHORNE EFFECT” LIVES ON. 2. SERIOUSLY, FUN 3. TRUE TO YOURSELF 4. INITIATING, NOT MANAGING CHANGE 5. GUARANTEED – REALLY?
1. THE “HAWTHORNE EFFECT” LIVES ON. It warrants attention, involvement and refinement by all the lessons learnt have been profound, but often unexpected. During the 1950s academics from University of Chicago undertook a study of employee performance at The Western Electric plant in the locality of Hawthorne, Illinois, United States of America. They were studying, […]
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PSA Media Releases – 1. Pharmacy Shark Tank finalists to take the plunge 2. Pharmacists and GPs must work together for the best patient outcomes 3. New training for pharmacists to re-enter the profession 4. New PSA Early Career Pharmacist Director to focus on the future
1. Pharmacy Shark Tank finalists to take the plunge July 2, 2018 PSA has announced the three finalists who will pitch their innovative pharmacy idea or product to the Pharmacy Shark Tank at PSA18 for a chance to share in a $10,000 prize pool. Pharmacists and researchers from across the country submitted applications for the […]
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NPS Media Releases – Australian Prescriber
MEDICINEWISE UPDATE JUNE 2018 Asthma webinar on-demand Watch our CPD-accredited webinar Difficult-to-treat and severe asthma: changing the paradigm to find out about new therapies, and how to identify and manage difficult-to-treat and severe asthma. Download replay ______________________________________ Neuropathic pain: current definition and review of drug treatment The definition of neuropathic pain has changed and opioids […]
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EDITORIAL for Monday 25 June 2018
Welcome to the current edition for i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday June 25 2018. While we may have become desensitised to the nightly newsfeed of brutality and violence involving murder, rape, suicide, domestic violence charge, warfare and its aftermath – distressed refugees, graft and corruption; you could be forgiven for thinking that perhaps […]
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Bypass the AMA if Collaborative Ventures are Required for Unmet Patient Needs
It is becoming apparent that the medical profession leadership has clearly “lost the plot” in direction-setting, patient engagement and collaborative health when you analyse statements attributable to AMA leaders at their recent national conference. Cries that GP’s feel “under assault” through pharmacists encroaching into “their” territory of vaccinations and sick certificates, with no mention of better […]
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What’s going on here?
Interesting reporting from within the medical/pharmacy media about the ego-driven (on both sides) reporting of the pharmacists versus doctors. There’s nothing new here, but why the sensational reporting? It’s even come down to the “evidence” – “you show me yours and I’ll show you mine…….we’ll agree to disagree and then retreat to our professions”. The […]
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Many Ordinary Meds Cause Depression; Public Trust in Pharma Hits New Low
For years, I’ve been writing about the medical system’s self-feeding mechanism:Give a patient a drug to treat his symptoms; the drug causes new symptoms, which are diagnosed as a new illness; and then new drugs are given, and those drugs cause still more symptoms, which in turn are diagnosed as a new condition…on and on […]
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An Evening With Manuel Cardoso – The Man Who Helped Reform Portugal’s Drug Policy
There was a big turn-out on rainy Sydney evening for drug law reform meeting. Tuesday 5th June 2018. St Stephen’s Church, Macquarie Street, Sydney, for “An evening with Manuel Cardoso – the man who helped reform Portugal’s drug policy”. The take-home message to get through to our politicians: decriminalisation is now proven to save lives, money […]