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Australia’s Health Care System Funding Needs Fixing
Australia’s health system funding is beginning to exhibit signs of stress. Is this by accident or by deliberate design? Health out of pocket expenses are beginning to climb and many common medical procedures are now funded by drawing down from a patient’s superannuation fund -sufficient monies to cover costs. Health advocates are concerned about the…
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OMNS – Fat is My Friend
(OMNS Jan 17, 2018) Throughout 2017 I kept saying “This looks like the year that the whole fat-cholesterol-heart disease hypothesis falls apart.” Well for once it looks like I was right. Today (I write on Jan 1st 2018) the annual review from Diabetes.co.uk carries 3 game-changing headlines from the past year: “Saturated fat myth challenged” “High carb…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis – 1. Sydney Criminal Lawyers: Medicinal Cannabis Doctor Is Being Held Behind Bars on Remand 2. Herb: Jeff Sessions: Anti-Weed Crusader Received Big Money From Big Tobacco 3. Cannabis Tech: Why The World Needs Hemp Plastic
1. Sydney Criminal Lawyers: Medicinal Cannabis Doctor Is Being Held Behind Bars on Remand By Paul Gregoire | 21/12/2017 | The benefits of medicinal cannabis have been widely recognised over recent years. Cannabis medicines have been used to ease the pain associated with chemotherapy, to treat the symptoms of Alzheimer’s and multiple sclerosis, as well as to reduce seizures in cases of severe epilepsy.In…
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The Safe Vaccine Debate – 1.Massive flu outbreak? Here’s the larger story the media won’t touch. The lies, the hoax, the scandal 2. Dr Judy Wilyman Report: Newsletters # 184, #185, # 187 3. World Mercury Project: A Lone FDA Scientist Could End the Autism Epidemic
1. Massive flu outbreak? Here’s the real story the media won’t touch. The lies, the hoax, the scandal. By Jon Rappoport In case you haven’t been following the uproar over the flu outbreak, you’ve missed the fact that… Health authorities admit this year’s flu vaccine is only 10% effective. But of course, they urge you…
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A New Year Brings Change
A new year often brings new beginnings. I was intrigued to discover how one company used a novel way to motivate employees to think about new ways of doing things. Here is the approach practiced by Chiyoji Misawa, who founded the largest home builder in Japan, Misawa Homes, more than 50 years ago. He “died”…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. New healthcare collaboration supports diabetes education 2. New training to improve communication with patients about their pain 3. Helping pharmacists communicate with patients on pain 4. Pharmacist reforms to deliver quality, cost-effective healthcare 5. Tributes flow for “true gentleman” Jack Thomas 6. New training for pharmacist delivery of sleep apnoea services
1. New healthcare collaboration supports diabetes education January 16, 2018 JOINT MEDIA RELEASE A new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed between the peak national body for pharmacists, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) and the Australian Diabetes Educators Association (ADEA). The PSA-ADEA healthcare partnership has enabled the launch of a co-branded, co-endorsed Pharmacist Diabetes…
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ASMI Media Releases – OTC ibuprofen pain medications no danger to testosterone production when used as directed
OTC ibuprofen pain medications no danger to testosterone production when used as directed January 10, 2018 – The Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) said today that people who follow the on-pack instructions for over-the-counter (OTC) ibuprofen products should not be concerned by reports on research associating prolonged use of ibuprofen and the risk of a…
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EDITORIAL for Monday 11 December 2017
Welcome to the current edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday 11 December 2017. At this time of the year we usually go into recess over the holiday period, and appear once again in the New Year (towards the end of January 2018). 2017 was an uncomfortable year for most pharmacists as they …
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Scotland’s Pharmacist Practitioner Champions
Perhaps it is because of my Scottish heritage, but I am continually dawn to the Scottish business model for community pharmacy, funded and developed in a genuine partnership between community pharmacists and government. One of its lesser publicised components is the funding of “Practitioner Champions”. It’s not a lot of money (£300,000 funding for this year),…
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Depressive illness – can we get involved?
The challenge of mental health is something in which we are intimately involved. How many of our patients struggle with SSRI and SNRI medications, only to struggle further with their symptoms and feelings. It is well known that many drugs modify normal and abnormal behaviours by changing the amounts of particular neurotransmitters present within the…