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Has Professional Pharmacy descended to a new low?
The Pharmaceutical Society has come out of hiding and expressed again their ongoing concerns about the quality and control of complementary medicines in Australia. They have a crack at the TGA once again, and imply that pharmacists are unprofessional if they support the sale of these products in a pharmacy setting. If they have the…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis – 1: Lucy Haslam Reports good News for the Terminally Ill 2. Medical Cannabis:Where do Doctors Stand? 3. Israel-Australia Cannabis Collaboration
1.United in Compassion: FInally some good news for people living with terminal illness who rely on Cannabis Lucy Haslam Tamworth, Australia JUN 13, 2017 — Dear supporters, finally some good news on the medicinal Cannabis front with the Government’s disallowance of cannabis access to the terminally ill, (through the pathway set up to recognise the urgency…
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Safe Vaccine Debate – 1. The Dr Judy Wilyman Report 2. Elizabeth Hart Report 3. The World Mercury Project
Newsletter 163: The Dr Judy Wilyman Report The Australian Government is Protecting Corporate Interests in Government Vaccination Policies 23 June 2016 Currently the Australian government is discussing extending its coercive and mandatory ‘No Jab No Pay‘ welfare policy to ban all healthy unvaccinated children from pre-schools and childcare centres. For anyone who does not have young…
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Friendships can lead to good working relationships
Two friends were walking through a dense jungle. Knowing the dangers, they promised to stick together whatever happened. Suddenly a tiger appeared in the bushes. One friend immediately turned and ran, climbing up a tree and leaving his companion behind. He watched as his friend dropped to the ground and played dead. The tiger…
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Blockchain Connects with Gold and Silver
Governments around the globe are starting to withdraw large denomination banknotes. It seems that this form of currency is used by the people who want to hide their income. On the other hand governments are finding that existing (old technology) digital payments are easy to track and can be brought into the taxable domain. India…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. Dr Shane Jackson Elected National President 2. PSA’s Comment on King Review 3. Vaccination Expansion in ACT 4. Conference to Explore Collaborative Healthcare 5. Revised Professional Practice Standards
1.Dr Shane Jackson elected new PSA National President June 22, 2017 Tasmanian pharmacist Dr Shane Jackson has been elected as President by the National Board of the peak body for Australia’s pharmacists, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) today. Dr Jackson – who will take office from July 1, 2017 – has followed Joe Demarte…
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ASMI Media Releases – 1. WSMI General Assembly 2. Pregnancy and Paracetamol
1. World Self Medication Industry (WSMI) General Assembly, October 18-19, 2017 There is a need to prioritise self-care in national and global health policy, which will be a topic for discussion at the World Self Medication Industry (WSMI) General Assembly, October 18-19. This conference brings together leading international healthcare experts from several fields, including medical, pharmaceutical,…
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EDITORIAL for Monday 12 June 2017
Welcome to the current edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) dated Monday 12 June 2017. In these days of a globalist movement becoming more visible and its objectives serving only corporate profits, there has sprung up an awareness movement to expose the corruption, manipulation and control that has blunted our personal freedoms and ideals. Globalism is so…
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Blockchain – disruptive technology behind “cryptocurrencies” and now set to invade health.
A blockchain is defined as a distributed database that can maintain an ever-expanding list of records (called “blocks”) without the need for a trusted administrator or a central server, instead relying on a peer-to-peer network collectively adhering to a protocol for validating new blocks. Each block contains a time stamp and a link to a…
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Pain, anxiety and depression, memory issues
Do we really understand what quality-of-life affects pain has on a person who we see regularly for their opioids? Really? Findings published in the Journal of Affective Disorders related to a survey of adults with anxiety or a mood disorder showed that over half cope with chronic pain. It seems that the dual burden of…