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EDITORIAL for Moday December 15, 2014
Welcome to the Information to Pharmacists (i2P) weekly edition for Monday December 15, 2014. As we draw close to the end of the year, we collectively appear to be licking our wounds rather than going out on a high. All portents for 2015 appear to be positive for pharmacists – if you have a plan.…
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2015 – a New Year Breakthrough
We are at the end of another tumultuous year. As I write there is a hostage negotiation under way in the Lindt chocolate cafe in Martin Place in Central Sydney CBD. It’s hard to concentrate and we are certainly living in more violent times. Who knows – this time next year we might be giving…
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Medicines That Matter – Drug Schedules Administered by Pharmacists
It’s taken a long time for pharmacy proprietors and their leadership body to take a good look and this sector of medicines and actually do something with it. But at least it is being reviewed and that has to be a plus. Another sector, with only a handful of scheduled items within it is the…
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UK Clinical Services Blocked
“The drive to move pharmacy away from a medicines supply role has made “disappointing” progress over the past year, think tank the Nuffield Trust has said.The sector must “seize the opportunities on offer” or its future over the next decade “looked bleak”, the think tank warned in its report on how attitudes to pharmacy have…
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Remote Interviews Made Easy with Speakset
Planners in health have considered alternatives for helping people “age in place”, living in their own home for as long as they are able. In this technological age we are inundated with “apps” that engage with existing electronic items, principally mobile phones. One new item that could fit into a “pharmacy-in-the-home” project is the UK…
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Vaccines and Genetic Diseases
Recently there has been discussion about the genetic cause of many chronic diseases that have increased in the population in recent decades. These diseases include allergies, asthma, anaphylaxis, autism, diabetes and other neurological and autoimmune diseases: all of which have increased significantly in children after the push to increase vaccination rates in the 1990’s. Whilst…
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OHMS – Reducing Fluoride Exposure
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, December 12, 2014 How to Reduce Exposure to Fluoride by Stuart Cooper, Fluoride Action Network (OMNS Dec 12, 2014) When fluoride was first added to water in the 1940s, in an experiment to prevent tooth decay, not a single dental product contained fluoride: no fluoride toothpastes, no fluoride mouth rinses, no…
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Suddenly DNA Analysis Just Got Cheaper
DNA analysis is something you would usually associate with a laboratory and a lot of complicated and expensive machinery. This could all be about to change when the miniPCR DNA Discovery System, a small DNA analysis kit generating funds on Kickstarter, is launched early next year. And improving workspace efficiency often hinges on finding reliable…
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PSA Media Releases – Jeff Hughes Award
December 12, 2014 Professor Jeff Hughes congratulated on prestigious award The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia has congratulated PSA Board member Professor Jeff Hughes on being awarded the 2014Australasian Pharmaceutical Sciences Association (APSA) Medal. The medal is APSA’s highest accolade to recognise excellence and a significant contribution to the pharmaceutical sciences and pharmacy practice. National President of the PSA, Grant Kardachi,…
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A Disappointing Guideline on Methadone Treatment
A disappointing ‘guideline’ on methadone treatment. Methadone Safety Guidelines. Methadone Safety: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American Pain Society and College on Problems of Drug Dependence, in Collaboration With the Heart Rhythm Society. Chou R, Cruciani RA, Fiellin DA, Compton P, Farrar JT, Haigney MC, Inturrisi C, Knight JR, Otis-Green S, Marcus SM, Mehta…