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EDITORIAL for Monday 22 February 2016
Welcome to this week’s edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday 22 February, 2016. This week we focus on the evolving pharmacy workplace and how it has to become happier. The ingredients are generally well known, but are not practiced too well these days. Essentially, community pharmacists must aspire to become leaders and…
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A Happy Workplace is also a Profitable Business Environment
A happy workplace is one that is characterised by good leadership generating good policies, forward planning and capital recruitment, with all of that activity interpreted by good managers. Note that I use the word “interpret” for managers whose primary function is simply to make good decisions. Words can sometimes be misleading and if they ambiguously…
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Biometric Systems – Coming to a Place Near You
Devices for measuring personal biometrics have been evolving for some time now, with the promise of continuous monitoring of a patient or a well person undertaking a strenuous fitness program. On balance, the fitness industry is driving this type of monitoring to ensure safety and guidance for fitness trainers, but there is obviously room for…
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Opportunities for Clinical Services
I was interested to read that Chemmart had introduced a genetic testing system designed to tailor drug treatments to an individual patient. At least that has been the promise of these types of tests as they have gradually made their way into the market-place. With the introduction of the myDNA test into a pharmacy environment…
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Dumbing us Down with the Zika Virus
When a television report was released on Australian TV showing a number of Brazilian infants affected by a condition called Microcephaly, a condition in which infants are born with smaller than normal brains, alarmist media reports surfaced simultaneously. The Brazilian ministry for health linked the microcephaly with the Zika virus, a mosquito borne infection. Then…
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Encouragement is verbal sunshine
Lord Chesterfield, in his famous letters to his son, said: “My son, here is the way to get people to like you. Make every person like himself a little better, and I promise that he or she will like you very much.” Most of us are aware of the tremendous power of encouragement, yet we…
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The Australasian Association for Academic Primary Care Inc
i2P is interested in promoting primary health care through community pharmacy or pharmacist collaboration with GP’s. We recently came across this website The Australasian Association for Academic Primary Care Inc which describes an organisation we had not heard of before. Given that the focus is on primary health care and is obviously designed to support and…
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PSA Media Release – Mental health expert Patrick McGorry to headline conference
Mental health expert Patrick McGorry to headline conference February 19, 2016 Leading mental health advocate and former Australian of the Year Professor Patrick McGorry AO will be the keynote speaker at the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) NSW Branch’s Annual Therapeutic Update (ATU) Conference in March. The annual conference has a theme of Advancing therapeutic…
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ASMI Media Release – Complementary Medicines highly regulated in Australia
Complementary Medicines highly regulated in Australia 15 February 2016 – The Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) says consumers should only purchase complementary medicines approved for supply in Australia because they are highly regulated by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). Steve Scarff, ASMI Director of Regulatory and Scientific Affairs said: “Australia’s system of regulating complementary medicines…
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NPS Media Release – APPLICATIONS CLOSING FOR NMS 2016 ASIA-PACIFIC SCHOLARSHIP
16 FEBRUARY 2016 APPLICATIONS CLOSING THIS WEEK FOR NMS 2016 ASIA-PACIFIC SCHOLARSHIP Applications close this Friday 19 February for the ‘quality use of medicines’ scholarship which allows a health academic, health worker or policy maker from the Asia-Pacific region to travel to Australia to attend the National Medicines Symposium (NMS) 2016 in Canberra, Australia in…