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EDITORIAL For Monday, 3 August, 2015
Welcome to i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine for Monday 3 August 2015. Now that the political scene is focused more on the Speaker of our parliament, Bronwyn Bishop, and her extraordinary expense allowance (as well as other politicians) we see how “the other half lives”. But we already knew that, and it does not give you…
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The Opportunity for Pharmacist Provided Triage Services
Triage, is a word derived from the French verb trier, which means to separate, sift or select. It is really a management process and management consultants constantly use the system to make management systems more efficient. It can can be applied to any workflow component of a pharmacy, and so the word has slightly different meanings depending on…
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Paint the Ceilings
I’ve been thinking about pizza, ceilings, and what we want from airlines and caregivers. I am a frequent flier, United 1K, in the interest of full disclosure. Last week, I was chatting with a fellow passenger who holds the airline’s highest status—Global Services. You can guess what two road warriors who’ve endured a hundred thousand…
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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…