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R U OK Day – a conversation could change a life
Thursday 11 September is R U OK Day all around Australia. A day to start a conversation and connect with those around you to ensure their well-being. For more information go to www.ruok.org.au. The steps involved are as follows: Ask R U OK? Be specific if you are concerned. Listen without judgement or interruption and…
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Lifting the Toxic Curse
Humans haven’t just poisoned the planet with potentially dangerous chemicals, we’ve also poisoned ourselves. So why is no one talking about it? Something more sinister than climate change stalks the human future – and it is high time we gave it the same attention. Few people have any idea of the universal chemical deluge to…
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SHPA Media Releases -1. Kirstie Galbraith & 2. Lloyd Sansom
1. SHPA Medal of Merit awarded for leadership in pharmacy education SHPA President Professor Michael Dooley presented the SHPA Medal of Merit to Kirstie Galbraith during the opening plenary session of Medicines Management 2014, the 40th SHPA National Conference, being held in Darwin this weekend. The SHPA Medal of Merit is awarded by SHPA’s Federal Council…
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Tea significantly lowers risk of non-CV death, study reveals
Drinking tea reduces non-cardiovascular mortality by 24%, reveals a study in 131 000 people presented at ESC Congress today by Professor Nicolas Danchin from France. Professor Danchin said: “If you have to choose between tea or coffee it’s probably better to drink tea. Coffee and tea are important components of our way of life. Their…
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Ebola, Enterovirus, Dirty Dishes and Plague (OHMS News)
If Abraham Lincoln were to describe the germ theory, I think he might have put it something like this: “You can infect some of the people all of the time, and infect all of the people some of the time; but you cannot infect all of the people all of the time.” The question, of…
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Vaccine Lobbying Australian-Style: HPV Vaccine Questioned
Editor’s Note: There is something sick about the medico-political structure in Australia, and indeed most other western economies. Judy Wilyman, a PhD student based at the University of Wollongong, is researching government vaccination policies. And it’s just as well because vaccination policy is all over the place, seemingly driven by vaccine manufacturers with little regard…
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PSA MEDIA RELEASES: 1.Immunisation focus at PAC14 2. Martin Bowles Welcomed
1.Immunisation focus at PAC14 Pharmacist-delivered immunisations are potentially an area of great opportunity for the pharmacy profession with the results of Phase 1 of the Queensland trial showing stunning results. Analysis of Phase 1 of the pilot in Queensland shows more than 10,000 people were vaccinated by pharmacists during the trial. Further, 96% of those…
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Editorial for Sunday 8th September 2014
Welcome to i2P this week. Things do seem to be moving in the pharmacy political arena with on the one hand, the AMA accusing the PGA of turf encroachment and consultant pharmacists accusing the PGA of conflict of interest in respect of HMR’s, their payment and their number. It’s a bit like a three-ring circus…
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Patient-Centred Care is Giving Emotional Support – Are You Up To It?
Have you ever wondered why the various polls for different occupations vary when measured against the parameters of honesty, ethics and caring? The top three positions are usually fought out between nursing, pharmacy and medicine. Nursing has consistently come in at number one, with pharmacy a close second, and usually medicine a little further back…
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Time for debate on maximising pharmacists’ role in improving consumer health outcomes
Pharmacists, doctors and other health professionals need a serious and objective discussion on the future role of pharmacists in the health system, the Acting National President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, Joe Demarte, said today. Mr Demarte was responding to calls by the AMA President, Associate Professor Brian Owler, for the Government to immediately…