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US Clinic Design: The Exam Room
The US style of walk-in clinic that is now starting to gain wide acceptance has at its heart a room they call the Exam Room. In Australia we do not seem to have yet settled on an official design, but some pharmacies have dedicated rooms they call treatment rooms, counselling rooms or consulting rooms, or…
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Vitamin D – Why Can’t We Be Proactive?
Vitamin D, the “sunshine vitamin”, forms the core of one of the longest fortification stories in the nutritional sphere. New research continues to support the ever-wider benefits for the vitamin. The naysayers continue to attempt to disagree with research results. Why are we so hesitant about embracing the benefits of vitamin D to our patients?…
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Workplace Changes Needed to Upgrade Employee Health
Five or more hours of sedentary sitting, according to researchers, is the health equivalent of smoking a pack and a quarter of cigarettes. Yet sitting around is something we get plenty of practice at. Reading and writing and creating on a computer makes for big chunks of sedentary time. If you’re reading this post right now,…
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Fighting Quackery
I’m not popular with many cancer patients, particularly those who love their alternative practitioners. Many of us seem to want to believe in voodoo and witchcraft. We will happily throw away hard-earned cash, swallow buckets of pills and submit ourselves to weird and fanciful ceremonies – just because our naturopath, homeopath, chiropractor, intuitive healer or…
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NPS Media Releases – FINDING RELIABLE INFORMATION ABOUT MEDICAL TESTS: NEW INFORMATION-SHARING COLLABORATION
A new information-sharing collaboration between NPS MedicineWise and Lab Tests Online Australasia means consumers and health professionals will have access to additional, reliable information on medical tests and conditions. This initial pilot allows visitors to the NPS MedicineWise to benefit from Lab Tests Online-Au content about medical tests, while people browsing the Lab Tests Online-Au site will have access…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. World Pharmacist Day 2. Lloyd Sansom at PAC14 3. Tasmanians get 90 percent Funding
1. World Pharmacists Day, Thursday 25 September 2014 Pharmacists and pharmacy students around Australia will celebrate World Pharmacists Day on Thursday 25 September, with a series of health promotion events, health check services and fun activities. The theme of this year’s events, Access to pharmacists is access to health, aims to increase public awareness of the role…
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ASMI Media Release – Consumer behaviour expert says Australian consumers want more prescription products as OTC
24 September 2014 – Australia’s system of scheduling medicines means that Australian consumers cannot access several non-prescription medicines over-the-counter (OTC) that are available without a prescription in many other countries, says consumer behaviour expert Professor Scott Koslow. Professor Koslow will present the results of new research on consumers’ current and future potential behaviour in relation…
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Editorial for Monday, 22 September 2014
Welcome to the current edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists), published on 22 September 2014. The week past has seen the release of the draft Competition Policy in which is contained a recommendation for change in the rules of ownership for pharmacy as well as the location rules. The document points out that if discussed…
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The Marketing Mix – A Starting Point For a Re-Invented Pharmacy With No Ownership or Location Rules
Producers and consumers In the short run, it’s more fun to be a consumer. It sure seems like consumers have power. The customer is always right, of course. The consumer can walk away and shop somewhere else. In the long run, though, the smart producer wins, because the consumer comes to forget how to produce.…
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A 10-Year Clinical Pharmacist Service Plan – Scottish government Style
The referendum in Scotland deciding on whether it remains a part of the United Kingdom or becomes a sovereign nation once more, is expected to be an almost “line-ball” result, which means that half of that nation will be disappointed, whatever the result. The date chosen for the referendum is not just a random date.…