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Where Has That Hand Been?
Don’t touch anything! Researchers Track Virus Spread Within Public Buildings Remember when your mother used to tell you, “Don’t touch anything” before you entered your aunt’s house—or just about any building? Well, it turns out she was right, but not because you could break something. Rather, your probability of developing an infection from touching surfaces…
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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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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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Pharmacy Practice Research – a New Disruptive Approach
Pharmacy Practice research is something we are aware is happening, but the breadth and depth of research is not clearly visible. At a time when pharmacy needs some sort of direction with evidence to back it up, information is very sparse. There is an awareness that a range of grants is made available to pharmacy…
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Major Contaminants in Wine
Environmental health has become such a major issue that it is now overwhelming health practitioners globally in respect of identifying symptoms, their chemical origins, their immediate treatment and how to program future avoidance. Being in the front line, it is an issue that community pharmacy, in particular, must embrace. Yet there is no education in…
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The Feel Good Principle: Making People Feel Better by Avoiding Inadequacy Marketing
We like things that make us feel good. We avoid stuff that hurts, feels bad, or is painful. It’s a basic human principle — embrace pleasure, and avoid pain. This explains why so many of us fail at New Year’s resolutions. Let’s be honest, most of us suck at resolutions. Here’s the reason why: they’re…
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Understanding Substitutes
Editor’s Note: We have republished an excerpt from marketing guru Seth Godin’s blog, because we thought it relevant to pharmacy practice, particularly when pricing clinical services. A link to Seth’s site appears at the foot of this article Seth Godin: This is a pretty long post, and I know that you could easily substitute another…
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Trends in Healthcare – From Quantitative to Qualitative
The near ubiquitous acceptance of smartphones and mobile internet access have ushered in a new wave of connected devices and smart objects that help us compile and track an unprecedented amount of previously unavailable data. This quantification of self, which used to be the sole domain of fitness fanatics and professional athletes, is now being…
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Drug Testing Made Safe – Organs on a Chip
Getting a new drug on the market is no small feat. On average it takes over a decade of trial and development before a new drug can hit the shelves, and only a fraction of them even make it that far. This is partly due to the guesswork that goes into using animals for drug…