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PSA15 – It’s now or never
The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia PSA have created a fresh new concept in pharmacy conferences which incorporates the best of previous conferences such as the CPExpo and PAC into an innovative new conference named PSA15. Joe Demarte the newly appointed president of the PSA began by saying that Australian pharmacy is undergoing unprecedented change, our…
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Nine Holistic Health Practitioners Die – Others Disappeared.
Some recent, very alarming events have occurred in the US over the past six weeks that involve the death, murder or disappearance of a number of prominent health practitioners. Commentators are drawing comparisons with proven established behaviour of Global Pharma companies and ask the question “Did they really go this far?” i2P adds that while suspicions…
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(Clinical) Trials and errors
The new anticoagulants are a cause for concern. The brilliant medical marketing has meant that so many of our patients are on them. Perhaps as the years go by, we will get a better understanding of the adverse effects and interactions which are ever so slowly coming to light. When you consider the number of…
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Vaccination Updates
Editor’s Note: Judy Wilyman, a PhD student based at the University of Wollongong, is researching government vaccination policies. And it’s just as well, because vaccination policy is all over the place, seemingly driven by vaccine manufacturers with little regard for human safety. i2P is not interested in the extreme politics of vaccination, simply safe vaccination. It…
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Bogus bed wetting interventions
I was recently contacted by a general practitioner who specialises in treating children who wet their beds. He raised concerns that he was seeing an increasing number of parents who had previously taken their child to alternative practitioners. One child had been to a chiropractor more than 20 times to be “adjusted”. This was causing…
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PSA Media Releases –
August 1, 2015 2015 Pharmacy Student of the Year announced Shanae Hancey from Western Australia was named the PSA Pharmacy Student of the Year during a ceremony at the PSA15 gala dinner in Sydney last night. Shanae also won the added honour of picking up the audience choice award for the event. National President of the Pharmaceutical Society…
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NPS Media Releases –
3 August 2015 Overuse of medicines in older Australians: what can we do? Two thirds of the Australian population over the age of 75 years take five or more medicines daily. On average at least one of these is either harmful or unnecessary. A National Stakeholders Meeting: Quality use of Medicines to Optimise Ageing in Older…
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EDITORIAL for Monday 27 July, 2015
Welcome to i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated 27 July 2015. This week saw the homeopathy debate in the UK flare up through pressure from skeptic groups. Used in the debate was the flawed study produced by the NHMRC here in Australia – a report that had no expert homeopath appointed to its investigating committee,…
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The Key Word is Strategy – and it Will Stimulate Clinical Service Design
With the pressure continuing to mount to design a range of clinical services for pharmacists, i2P advises that you need to design each type of service using a basic architecture and strategy. This will unify your approach and make it easier to communicate your concept to other health professionals and potential patients. This approach for…
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Emoji Power and Pharmacist Communications
Recently I noted a comment published in a pharmacy online blog that criticised the way pharmacist written communications were delivered to aboriginal communities and referred specifically to the lack of images to relay concepts or specialised components of information. Not having a lot of experience in this area I reflected about what I did know…