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Editorial for Monday, 15 September, 2014
Welcome to i2P-(Information to Pharmacists) edition for the 15th September 2014. The Pharmacy Landscape seems very unsettled and with the announcement by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia (PGA) that HMR quotas will continue into the 6CPA. This is very disappointing and may weigh heavily with some accredited pharmacists who saw HMR’s as being a suitable…
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Health Coaches Will Gain Acceptance in Supermarkets Because of PGA Policies
The Australian College of Pharmacy recently held a conference in Hobart. Within the conference structure was a panel of Pharmacy Guild personalities who fielded questions on the future of HMR’s and RMMR’s and what restrictions may be in place within the 6CPA. The general consensus appeared to be that: “It was highly likely that the…
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Apple Opportunities or Not – Disruption and Vision
If you think back to 2001 and the iPod, it changed the music market (eventually impacting CD sales) and replaced Napster & Kazaa file-sharing. For around $0.50-$2/song, Apple established a price point consumers were willing to pay and the Music Copyright Moguls (not artists) would entertai They weren’t the first MP3 player, but the first…
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R U OK Day – a conversation could change a life
Thursday 11 September is R U OK Day all around Australia. A day to start a conversation and connect with those around you to ensure their well-being. For more information go to www.ruok.org.au. The steps involved are as follows: Ask R U OK? Be specific if you are concerned. Listen without judgement or interruption and…
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Lifting the Toxic Curse
Humans haven’t just poisoned the planet with potentially dangerous chemicals, we’ve also poisoned ourselves. So why is no one talking about it? Something more sinister than climate change stalks the human future – and it is high time we gave it the same attention. Few people have any idea of the universal chemical deluge to…
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SHPA Media Releases -1. Kirstie Galbraith & 2. Lloyd Sansom
1. SHPA Medal of Merit awarded for leadership in pharmacy education SHPA President Professor Michael Dooley presented the SHPA Medal of Merit to Kirstie Galbraith during the opening plenary session of Medicines Management 2014, the 40th SHPA National Conference, being held in Darwin this weekend. The SHPA Medal of Merit is awarded by SHPA’s Federal Council…
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Tea significantly lowers risk of non-CV death, study reveals
Drinking tea reduces non-cardiovascular mortality by 24%, reveals a study in 131 000 people presented at ESC Congress today by Professor Nicolas Danchin from France. Professor Danchin said: “If you have to choose between tea or coffee it’s probably better to drink tea. Coffee and tea are important components of our way of life. Their…
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Ebola, Enterovirus, Dirty Dishes and Plague (OHMS News)
If Abraham Lincoln were to describe the germ theory, I think he might have put it something like this: “You can infect some of the people all of the time, and infect all of the people some of the time; but you cannot infect all of the people all of the time.” The question, of…
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Vaccine Lobbying Australian-Style: HPV Vaccine Questioned
Editor’s Note: There is something sick about the medico-political structure in Australia, and indeed most other western economies. 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…
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PSA MEDIA RELEASES: 1.Immunisation focus at PAC14 2. Martin Bowles Welcomed
1.Immunisation focus at PAC14 Pharmacist-delivered immunisations are potentially an area of great opportunity for the pharmacy profession with the results of Phase 1 of the Queensland trial showing stunning results. Analysis of Phase 1 of the pilot in Queensland shows more than 10,000 people were vaccinated by pharmacists during the trial. Further, 96% of those…