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Newcastle Conference will Feature Solutions for Pharmacy
Editor’s Note: Crunch time is coming up fast with Location Rules now firmly being investigated as to relevancy. i2P predicted this event in the year 2000, but we were three years out. We expected it to happen in 2012. We also said that when pharmacists were worn down with a massive workload and a minimal…
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Hay fever options
An interesting article written by a number of academics promises to give some relief to the 15% of Australians who experience hay fever, or allergic rhinitis. Predictably, they list oral and nasal decongestants, antihistamines, nasal steroid sprays and immunotherapy as the best medical options. I was therefore surprised to note the absence of isotonic saline…
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Age is only a number
October is one of my favorite months, perhaps because that’s when I get to blow out my birthday candles and celebrate another successful year. Who doesn’t love birthdays? My age is irrelevant; in fact, I subscribe to the iconic comedian Jack Benny’s philosophy. He turned 39 in 1933, and remained that age until his death…
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Crazy, cruel cancer ‘cures’
Some cancer patients, ignoring medical advice, are choosing ‘natural’ approaches to their disease. Steve Jobs (co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc), Penelope Dingle, Sharyn and her daughter, Jess Ainscough, all used alternative interventions before dying of cancer. Despite phenomenal progress with medical treatments, cancer quackery remains a flourishing and lucrative business throughout the developed…
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Big Names; Big Mistakes Consumers Misled by Supplement Bashing
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 30, 2015 Big names: the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), arguably the most prestigious medical journal in the world. Plus, the New York Times. On October 14th, the latter mentioned: “Dietary Supplements Lead to 20,000 E.R. Visits Yearly, Study Finds.” It was a report of a study published in the NEJM with…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. Awards for Australian Pharmacist Journal 2. Pharmacy Practitioner Development
28 October 2015 Australian Pharmacist wins award trifecta Australian Pharmacist, the official monthly journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, today won its third national award in a week when journalist Peter Waterman won the Bupa National Press Club Health Journalism Award in the Documentary Category. Last week in Sydney Australian Pharmacist editor and journalist…
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NPS Media Releases – Choosing Wisely on ABC Catalyst
27 OCTOBER 2015 CHOOSING WISELY AUSTRALIA TO FEATURE ON CATALYST’S “TOO MUCH MEDICINE” Choosing Wisely Australia® will feature in tonight’s episode of ABC’s Catalyst program, in a special report by Dr Maryanne Demasi called “Too Much Medicine”. The investigation will ask “Could excessive medical interventions be causing more harm than good?”. Dr Robyn Lindner…
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EDITORIAL for Monday 26 October 2015
Welcome to this weeks’ edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists ) E-Magazine, dated Monday 26 October 2015. In this edition we open up the potential of pharmacists developing and managing the economic benefits that could accrue with an association with marijuana. For the past 70 years this substance has had scientific research suppressed into its…
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Medical Marijuana Creates Clinical and Financial Opportunity for Pharmacists
The Australian Government intends to amend the Narcotic Drugs Act to allow cannabis to be grown for medicine or science and ensure that Australia is not in breach of international drug treaties. In Australia currently Cannabis is prohibited or otherwise managed through Drug Scheduling: (a) when separately specified in these Schedules; or (b) processed hemp…
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Book Launch – “A Prescription for Pharmacy”
Editor’s Note: Mouhamad Zoghbi is a nurse by profession, has two siblings who are pharmacists and is married to a pharmacy assistant. He is also a medical representative for a global drug manufacturer. He has just written and published a book titled “A Prescription for Pharmacy”. As its’ title implies, pharmacy may be a sick…