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Recreating Pharmacy’s Story in an Invigorating Format
An opportunity is being created to present the story of Australian pharmacy in a significant manner. Significant because of the government beating inflicted on the profession, plus the “spin” created by competing health professions, has caused all of pharmacy to pause, lick its wounds and find the way forward. The Pharmacy Guild of Australia has…
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The Feel Good Principle: Making People Feel Better by Avoiding Inadequacy Marketing
We like things that make us feel good. We avoid stuff that hurts, feels bad, or is painful. It’s a basic human principle — embrace pleasure, and avoid pain. This explains why so many of us fail at New Year’s resolutions. Let’s be honest, most of us suck at resolutions. Here’s the reason why: they’re…
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Vaccine Manufacturers Face Criminal Charges in Spain
Editor’s Note: The “junk science” that is used to promote vaccines and other pharmaceuticals has consequences. One consequence includes the loss of lives. While this is criminal and actionable, we have yet to see senior individual executives prosecuted for their crimes, only the companies they represent receiving massive fines. That mainstream media is colluding with…
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I’ve Been Thinking About: Presidents, Engineers, Nurses, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
The bulk of the word consequence is sequence. In sequence, outcomes (intended or not) follow actions. Typically, consequences is used in reference to negative outcomes. In 1974, Richard Nixon had neither intended nor anticipated the devastating sequence of events that would follow the Watergate break-in and subsequent cover-up. He had not expected his actions would…
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Can Vitamin C Cure Ebola?
Article provided by the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service http://orthomolecular.org/subscribe.html archive link http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/index.shtml Commentary by Steve Hickey PhD, Hilary Roberts PhD, and Damien Downing MBBS, MSB (OMNS Aug 20, 2014) If there were a drug that worked on Ebola you should use it. There isn’t. There is only vitamin C. But you must be extremely careful…
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Philanthropy and Tex- Mex – an amazing story at PAC14
Medical practitioner, philanthropist and successful businessman Dr Sam Prince will be a highlight of PAC14 in Canberra when he details his amazing life and career, and the work he is doing on partnering and practising in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Dr Prince is a renowned motivational speaker and will detail how he came…
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NPS Medicinewise Announces First Bilingual Pharmacist Hour
NPS MedicineWise today announced its first bilingual Pharmacist Hour which will be held in Arabic later this month.Pharmacist Hour is an ongoing successful program which encourages consumers to ask questions about medicines on NPS MedicineWise’s Facebook page. Questions are answered by a pharmacist who is a member of the NPS Medicines Line team. The Arabic-language…
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From the Editor’s Desk This Week
Pharmacy is not the only industry group affected by political and economic changes. Retailing is undergoing a paradigm shift where a business is “segmented” and single segments are repackaged for delivery within other business models, offline and online. A large part of pharmacy’s business is done by retail, so it would be remiss of community…
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The 10-Year Market Plan: A new Pharmacopiea+ New Clinical Services
A 10-year market plan has been called for pharmacy. Who will have the lead in this initiative and how will it be made inclusive so that any pharmacist may contribute? Indeed, does the traditional leadership group for pharmacies, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, have sufficient moral capital to be even considered for this important job?…
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A Great Pharmacy Opportunity – Omnichannel Retailing
Retailing is all about being fast on your feet and unfortunately pharmacy has lost its retail skill set, except maybe in the field of discounting, which is not an attractive model for this point in retail pharmacy development. General retailers are looking (and acting) on a concept called omnichannel retailing which is a trend for…