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FOUR WAYS TO PREPARE YOURSELF FOR AN EBOLA OUTBREAK
Editor”s Note: The following article is republished from a US newsletter titled “Underground Insider”. It contains sensible and useful information for pharmacists to utilise within their own homes and families, or to pass on to any worried customers/patients. In Australia, we are fortunate that our location provides some defence against viruses such as Ebola, but…
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Marijuana Use Does Not Impact on IQ
A 2012 Duke University study made international headlines when it purported to find a link between heavy marijuana use and IQ decline among teenagers. You can visit this website if you wish to buy medical marijuana! Other researchers questioned the findings almost immediately: Columbia University’s Carl Hart noted the very small sample of heavy users (38) in the…
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Same Mountain
Editor’s Note: i2P finally has a chiropractor writer with the courage to defend his profession. We have given him anonymity to protect him from the Skeptic lunatic fringe who seem to believe they have a divine right to vilify people not of their belief. Much like the Ku Klux Clan. He writes under the pseudonym…
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Ancient Europeans were lactose intolerant for the first 4,000 years they made cheese
As early humans shifted from hunting and gathering to agriculture, their genomes shifted, too. But according to new research, the adaptations that allow us to enjoy dairy products without digestion problems may have arisen much later than expected in some populations. The new study, published Tuesday in Nature Communications, sequenced the genetic information of 13…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. Vaccination National Accreditation 2. Innovative Pharmacist of the Year 3 . National Award for Immunisation Pilot
October 24, 2014 PSA vaccination training course granted national accreditation PSA has gained national accreditation with the Australian Skills Quality Authority for the PSA vaccination training used in the highly successful Queensland Pharmacist Immunisation Pilot (QPIP). The course – APPIMM806A Manage the delivery and administration of injections and immunisations – also forms part of the exclusive PSA Graduate Diploma of Applied…
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ASMI Media Release – Complementary Medicines Improve Health
New Research: Complementary medicines can improve consumer health and reduce costs 15 October 2014. Specific complementary medicines can contribute to improved health and reduced consumer healthcare costs, according to a new study by economic research firm Frost and Sullivan. The study, ‘Targeted Use of Complementary Medicines: Potential Health Outcomes and Cost Savings in Australia,’ which…
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NPS –Information on medical tests
What are medical tests and why are they useful? Medical tests are a range of checks and procedures used to: screen for possible illness diagnose the likely cause of symptoms monitor health conditions or the effects of treatment. Medical tests include pathology tests, such as blood and urine tests, and a range of imaging tests…
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EDITORIAL for Monday, 20 October 2014
The weeks are certainly speeding up as it only seems yesterday that I wrote the last editorial and the day before that again – when the new format for i2P was introduced. Welcome to the current edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) and the very topical material we have this week. Ebola appears in almost…
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As Pharmacists How Can We Prepare For an Ebola Outbreak?
Like a lot of health professionals I have been reading about the Ebola outbreak and what we, as pharmacists, should provide in the form of information or treatment support. I have not seen anything from our official bodies, and it may be too late if an outbreak actually occurs within Australia. The mathematics of the…
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Expect 6000 more Australian deaths if pollution rises to ‘safe’ threshold
A leading pollution expert is warning Australian governments not to use the existing national pollution standards when assessing new infrastructure projects.The National Environment Protection Measures (NEPM) has set maximum daily limits, or ‘standards’, for six key outdoor pollutants, which QUT‘s Associate Professor Adrian Barnett says many authorities wrongly assume to be ‘safe’ thresholds for health. To test that…