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EDITORIAL For Monday 29 September, 2014
Well, what an interesting week just gone by where we see the AMA promote the idea to medical prescribers that they deprescribe! Has it not occurred to them that for their polypharmacy patients it should be now mandatory for an HMR to be ordered? Government take note. Here is an area of savings for the…
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Deprescribing – the New Kid on the Block!
When I see words such as “deprescribing” I immediately think of advertising spin and the need to address our “sick” society. And make no mistake, these new spin words are introduced through the medical profession to highlight doctors as “good guys” and pharmacists as “bad guys”. “Deprescribing” is simply overprescribing inappropriately by doctors, directly creating…
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Self Care – Its Time Has arrived With Positive Health Outcomes by Design
Wishing vs. doing By giving people more ways to speak up and more tools to take action, we keep decreasing the gap between what we wish for and what we can do about it. If you’re not willing to do anything about it, best not to waste the energy wishing about it. Seth Godin Self…
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US Clinic Design: The Exam Room
The US style of walk-in clinic that is now starting to gain wide acceptance has at its heart a room they call the Exam Room. In Australia we do not seem to have yet settled on an official design, but some pharmacies have dedicated rooms they call treatment rooms, counselling rooms or consulting rooms, or…
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Vitamin D – Why Can’t We Be Proactive?
Vitamin D, the “sunshine vitamin”, forms the core of one of the longest fortification stories in the nutritional sphere. New research continues to support the ever-wider benefits for the vitamin. The naysayers continue to attempt to disagree with research results. Why are we so hesitant about embracing the benefits of vitamin D to our patients?…
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Workplace Changes Needed to Upgrade Employee Health
Five or more hours of sedentary sitting, according to researchers, is the health equivalent of smoking a pack and a quarter of cigarettes. Yet sitting around is something we get plenty of practice at. Reading and writing and creating on a computer makes for big chunks of sedentary time. If you’re reading this post right now,…
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Fighting Quackery
I’m not popular with many cancer patients, particularly those who love their alternative practitioners. Many of us seem to want to believe in voodoo and witchcraft. We will happily throw away hard-earned cash, swallow buckets of pills and submit ourselves to weird and fanciful ceremonies – just because our naturopath, homeopath, chiropractor, intuitive healer or…
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NPS Media Releases – FINDING RELIABLE INFORMATION ABOUT MEDICAL TESTS: NEW INFORMATION-SHARING COLLABORATION
A new information-sharing collaboration between NPS MedicineWise and Lab Tests Online Australasia means consumers and health professionals will have access to additional, reliable information on medical tests and conditions. This initial pilot allows visitors to the NPS MedicineWise to benefit from Lab Tests Online-Au content about medical tests, while people browsing the Lab Tests Online-Au site will have access…
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PSA Media Releases – 1. World Pharmacist Day 2. Lloyd Sansom at PAC14 3. Tasmanians get 90 percent Funding
1. World Pharmacists Day, Thursday 25 September 2014 Pharmacists and pharmacy students around Australia will celebrate World Pharmacists Day on Thursday 25 September, with a series of health promotion events, health check services and fun activities. The theme of this year’s events, Access to pharmacists is access to health, aims to increase public awareness of the role…
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ASMI Media Release – Consumer behaviour expert says Australian consumers want more prescription products as OTC
24 September 2014 – Australia’s system of scheduling medicines means that Australian consumers cannot access several non-prescription medicines over-the-counter (OTC) that are available without a prescription in many other countries, says consumer behaviour expert Professor Scott Koslow. Professor Koslow will present the results of new research on consumers’ current and future potential behaviour in relation…