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Functional Medicine – Embracing All That Is Needed in Health
Functional Medicine is a system that addresses the underlying causes of disease, using a systems-oriented approach and engaging both patient and practitioner in a therapeutic partnership. It talks about cures rather than just management and embraces all that is evidence-based in integrative medicine and other complementary medicine modalities. It is an evolution in health practice…
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Nutrition issues – another opportunity
Deakin University has come to the conclusion that most doctors are ill-equipped to identify and manage the nutritional needs of patients. Listening to my patients tell me that their GPs never allows them to eat eggs, because of the effects on their cholesterol, supports that Deakin conclusion. Deakin found for example, that a mere 15%…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. Cannabis Debate 2.Prescription Real Time Monitoring
November 11, 201 Cannabis debate, Code of Ethics feature in latest edition of Australian Pharmacist The role of pharmacists in the medical cannabis debate is coming under scrutiny, with growing public support for medical cannabis underscored by a recent Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Survey showing 69 per cent of people supported legislation…
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Study shows marijuana’s long-term effects on the brain
The effects of chronic marijuana as stated by this site, use on the brain may depend on age of first use and duration of use, according to researchers at the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas. In a paper published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers for the…
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I’ve been thinking about Tina, Sarah, slinkies, and how improv may improve your group’s productivity.
I’ve been thinking about Tina, Sarah, slinkies, and how improv may improve your group’s productivity. During the 2008 presidential campaign, I thought Tina Fey did a good Sarah Palin—so good that when the governor from Alaska joined the comedian on Saturday Night Live, it seemed as if Tina Palin and Sarah Fey were impersonating each…
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ASMI – Media Releases 1. ASMI celebrates its 40th anniversary
17 November 2014 – The Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year at the ASMI 2014 Annual Conference and a gala dinner tomorrow. ASMI Executive Director Dr Deon Schoombie said: “Over the last 40 years ASMI has become the voice of Australia’s non-prescription medicines industry, significantly influencing medicines policy and…
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NPS Media Release – ANTIBIOTIC AWARENESS WEEK 2014: IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT ANTIBIOTICS
As Antibiotic Awareness Week 2014 is held across Australia from 17-23 November, NPS MedicineWise is asking all Australians to imagine a world without antibiotics and join the fight against antibiotic resistance. NPS MedicineWise CEO, Dr Lynn Weekes, says that Antibiotic Awareness Week is a timely reminder that we all urgently need to take action to change the course…
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Editorial for Monday 10 November 2014
Welcome to this weeks edition of i2P dated 10 November 2014. The year is fast drawing to a close but I think many pharmacists may have shortened their plans for an extended vacation this year. Instead, they will prefer to use the period between Christmas and the end of January as a reflective period to…
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Pricing- Get it Right While Marketing in the Right Direction
This article is intended as a reference article for the marketing of professional services to assist all pharmacists (owners and individual practitioners) to succeed in a new paradigm of pharmacy with its traditional core business of dispensing plus free advice, with the advice component being developed to paid professional services (core expansion). Pharmacists are highly…
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The Humble Shop Window Display – Maybe a Much Needed Ingredient?
The current physical presentation for a pharmacy does not generally include a specific area that was a future of the recent past, namely a shop window. Giving ground to the view that retail space is costly and every square metre needs to be allocated to consumer accessible displays, we have seen shop windows disappear and…