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Create Infinite Growth Through Appropriate Brand Building
Recently, I came across a paper published on the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) website and it was titled “Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth”. It was a paper that involved simple processes to create strong brand images. As I read into the detail I found that if I changed some of the nomenclature it was…
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Being a Good Collaborative Leader
In today’s globally connected world we are starting to find sharp disparities among leaders and their style of leadership. The “command and control” style of manager is beginning to have a hard time adjusting to constant change and workplace reality. Business leaders in all walks of life, including the health professions, are starting to work…
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Medical Marijuana and its Positive Possibilities for Pharmacy
The case for legalising marijuana for medical purposes has been tested – and has been won (Victoria has set in motion the regulatory arrangements for this to happen in their state-others will follow). Now it’s the turn of the regulators who have the problem of separating legal use from illegal use. As more research is…
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Homeopathy and the APLF – What’s Wrong With This Picture?
It’s not so long ago that i2P asked me to investigate the NHRMC investigation into homeopathy, because of perceived bias. Go to: Homeopathy – A Political Diversion Rather Than a Valid Issue This was requested because i2P was receiving information regarding the manipulation of orchestrated attacks on some health modalities, in particular homeopathy and chiropractic.…
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Get Up Advert banned
As government becomes secretive and undemocratic and mainstream media aids the process, it generates a climate that allows for the formation of equal and opposite alternatives, and to mobilise affected communities. These manifest as a range of “whistle-blowers”, online polls and surveys, blogs published over the Internet and news aggregators that attempt to provide a…
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Medibank moves to emulate US health insurers – New Funding Models Needed!
Health insurance in the US has always been a contentious issue because of its limitations and high cost. Because of the cost factor it often formed part of a benefit in a salary package with the employer, better able to access to negotiate and manage health insurance discounts. Aggregation through a multiple of employees gave economic…
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UK Supermarket Reversal – Offloading Pharmacies Instead of Acquiring Them
Sainsbury Supermarkets occupy the Number Two position in the market share chart of UK supermarkets. But it has shown a decline in market share and turnover in the last financial year, and this has been attributed to the discounters Lidl and Aldi. Aldi had the greatest impact with its sales increase being to the order…
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The Precautionary Principle – Why did it disappear in formulating vaccine policy?
These days, when you raise any comment or query regarding the effectiveness of a vaccine, the mainstream media label you as an “anti-vaxer” and either ignore you or write you up in a derogatory fashion. And isn’t it strange that a universal call for “safe vaxing” is not even mentioned, because it does not suit…
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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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Macquarie Uni Resumes Chiropractic Courses
In what must be a major upset for The Friends of Science in Medicine, Macquarie University has decided to reinstate chiropractic courses to degree levels once more. Two years ago, the president of the FSM, Professor John Dwyer approached Macquarie University with a proposal to exchange the chiropractic courses with research grants in the biomedical…