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Please Help the Worried Well
I’m not sure what’s happening, and it may be a result of the issues around blood tests for everything including underwear size, but I’m seeing lots of blokes especially who, having had a blood test which shows a slightly elevated something or other, are scared stiff about the ramifications. Fasting glucose levels that has slightly…
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Consumer Health Opportunities
People who are committed to healthful eating and lifestyles are well-informed about ingredients and food labels, and hard to sway with label claims. Yet they don’t fully appreciate the health benefits of frozen fruit and vegetables. Those are a few insights from a new report from Dunnhumby that analyzes the value and behaviors of “health-committed”…
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Vein Viewing Technology Use is an Australian First
Editor’s Note: The following information comes from the Australian Red Cross, who are trialling a device that utilises near infrared light to track blood vessels to improve the blood donation experience. Near infrared light is starting to appear in a range of medical technologies that can provide cheap and accurate metrics for patients for a…
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ASMI Media Releases 1. ASMI Conference – Self Care 2. ASMI Conference-Transforming Pharmacy
ASMI 2014 Conference: Self care emerging as central to sustainable health policy 28 October 2014 – Interest in self care is growing worldwide particularly in developed economies such as the UK, Australia and the US. In the UK, momentum has been slowly building since 2000 when the National Health Service Blueprint (NHS Plan) was announced…
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Is it ‘Wellness’ or ‘ Wellne$$’?
I was introduced to the concepts of ‘well-being’, and ‘wellness’ after my cancer was diagnosed 10 years ago. Have these terms, intended to guide patients back to good health, been high-jacked by the Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) industry to exploit us? A definition of ‘well-being’ is “the state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy“.…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. UTS Survey 2. PGA Campaign 3. Vaccination Course 4. Innovative Pharmacist Award 5. Immunisation Pilot Award
November 2, 2014 UTS survey shows support for greater focus on pharmacist professional services The pharmacy profession remains pessimistic about its future, but sees opportunities for a greater focus on professional services in the next Community Pharmacy Agreement, according to the latest UTS Pharmacy Barometer. The barometer, on which a score of 100 represents…
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NPS Media Releases- Antibiotic Awareness Week
3 November, 2014 IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT ANTIBIOTICS: SAVE THE DATE FOR ANTIBIOTIC AWARENESS WEEK This November NPS MedicineWise will be raising awareness on antibiotic resistance and promoting responsible use of antibiotics in the Australian community for Antibiotic Awareness Week – a global initiative. Antibiotic Awareness Week will run from 17 to 23 November 2014.…
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Editorial For Monday 27 October 2014
Welcome to the current edition of i2P – Information to Pharmacists. This week we have a new article on Ebola and we were pleased to see that two other publications were released just after the i2P alert, the first in any medical publication in Australia. The two publications were Australian Doctor and the Pharmacy Guild…
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Transformational Change in Healthcare and Education
Transformational is the “buzz” word given to that segment of change required to eliminate medical errors and prevent iatrogenic disease from occurring. In September 2013, the Journal of Patient Safety reported that an estimated 400,000 patients die each year in the US due to preventable medical errors. If that number of people were to die…
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Patient – Centred Patient Homes
We are reading a lot about aspirations in terms of attitudes to treatment of patients in transformational health spaces. A culture change drives this thinking because we are aware that health costs as an integrated whole are far too high and that patients do not feel they are in control of their health in any…