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Patient-Centred Care is Giving Emotional Support – Are You Up To It?
Have you ever wondered why the various polls for different occupations vary when measured against the parameters of honesty, ethics and caring? The top three positions are usually fought out between nursing, pharmacy and medicine. Nursing has consistently come in at number one, with pharmacy a close second, and usually medicine a little further back…
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MMR Vaccine Found to Cause Autism in African-American Children
Recent revelations concerning clinical trials involving MMR vaccine and the non-reporting of the incidence incurred in an African-American sub group involved with the trial. The revelation came in the release of a statement by William Thomson admitting that certain important information had been omitted from an article published in the journal Pediatrics back in 2004.…
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The Next Battlefield – Patient Diagnostics
Medical apps have exploded into health-related industries in very recent times. So much so, that they have proliferated to the extent they confuse the markets they seek to be part of. Medical apps have also been developed by a range of people, including doctors and pharmacists (one app is publicised in this edition – “Our…
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Our Pills Talk – an Aussie Pharmacist Initiative
Editor’s Note: I recently had contact with an enterprising pharmacist by the name of Steve Cohen. Steve had an idea for a mobile phone app that would bring dispensed medicine directions to life by utilising QR codes to enable a patient to “hear” their medication instructions in a language of their choice. This initiative forms…
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Complementary Medicines Advance Market Share
Mainstream medicine manufacturers have a continuing headache with the growth of complementary medicine sales in Australia. And because this is happening, mainstream medicine, through its front-promoter medical organisations, continues to hammer the mantra about lack of evidence and pressure on regulators to prevent the sale of complementary medicines because of a supposed lack of evidence…
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The 10-Year Market Plan: A new Pharmacopiea+ New Clinical Services
A 10-year market plan has been called for pharmacy. Who will have the lead in this initiative and how will it be made inclusive so that any pharmacist may contribute? Indeed, does the traditional leadership group for pharmacies, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, have sufficient moral capital to be even considered for this important job?…
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A Great Pharmacy Opportunity – Omnichannel Retailing
Retailing is all about being fast on your feet and unfortunately pharmacy has lost its retail skill set, except maybe in the field of discounting, which is not an attractive model for this point in retail pharmacy development. General retailers are looking (and acting) on a concept called omnichannel retailing which is a trend for…