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Magnesium Decreases Hyperactivity in ADHD Children
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, November 23, 2016 Magnesium deficiency is found more frequently in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than in healthy children. In one study of ADHD children, magnesium deficiency was found in 95 percent of those examined (1). Does this warrant magnesium supplementation for hyperactive children? The answer is yes. Supplementation…
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Marketing Focus – Essays on Management and Marketing
Post-truth is the Oxford Dictionary 2016 word of the year. This new addition to the English lexicon is an adjective, not a noun. Among the consequences are the now qualified value and validity of words like projections, predictions, forecasts, expectations and facts. United States of America President – Elect Donald Trump, with his post-truth representations of…
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I’ve been thinking about medication safety technology and beating the clock.
Sixty years ago, I enjoyed the popular ABC black-and-white television game show Beat the Clock. “America’s number one clock watcher” and host, Bud Collyer, gave contestants simple, fun assignments. On one episode, a lady had to balance a dinner plate on a pencil for fifteen seconds—before the clock “beat her.” On another, a guy had…
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Develop success habits of millionaires
November is National Entrepreneurship Month, which in my world is the next best thing to a national holiday. Entrepreneurs are the backbone of American business. They take risks with their ideas, money and reputations, believing that their efforts will pay off even when no one else has confidence in them. This month honors those who…
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PSA Media Releases – Vic. Pharmacist Medal Award
Beatrix Zielonka-Perry awarded Victorian Pharmacist Medal November 19, 2016 High-achieving community pharmacist Beatrix Zielonka-Perry has won the Victorian Pharmacist Medal for 2016, presented by the peak national body for pharmacists, PSA. Ms Zielonka-Perry received the award, alongside Robert Scarso who won the Victorian Intern Pharmacist of the Year, at the annual Victorian Pharmacists Dinner on…
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ASMI Media Releases – Support for Codeine OTC
Support for retaining codeine products over-the-counter The Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) has restated its support for retaining the current status of over-the-counter codeine-containing analgesics. ASMI supports a range of targeted measures for codeine products, including mandatory warning statements, reducing pack sizes, education on benefits and risks, and the real-time recording and monitoring system for…
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NPS Media Releases – Australian Prescriber Current Edition
MONDAY 5 DECEMBER 2016 Latest edition of Australian Prescriber out now The latest issue of Australia’s free, national, independent journal of drugs and therapeutics is now available. The journal facilitates debate about complex, controversial or uncertain therapeutic areas. Some of the highlights of the December 2016 issue include: How safe are biosimilars? Ross McKinnon from Flinders University…
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EDITORIAL for Monday 21 November 2016
Welcome to the current edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine, dated Monday 21 November 2016. Since our last edition we have seen a Donald Trump victory in the US and a collapse of confidence in mainstream media, one that threatens its existence. It was mainstream media that promoted most of the negative information designed…
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How Amazon Will Dominate Global Retail
Amazon is an innovation company that spends an extraordinary amount of money developing research on inventions that can eventually be implanted in the private homes of all consumers. One of its most successful inventions to date is called Echo, and this is a device that was originally envisioned as an intelligent, voice-controlled household appliance that…
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The Desensitised Culture
It’s time for a new prescription The community pharmacy is fighting to survive amid aggressive price disclosures, high expenses and pressures from wholesalers. Yet, the treatment of slashing costs and pushing discounts only focuses on the symptom of financial turmoil, rather than treating the root cause of the problem. The financial turmoil facing the pharmacy…