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Road to recovery: reversing the effects of binge drinking on mental health
Alcohol binge drinking is bad at any age. But binge drinking if you’re young and have a mental health issue is a recipe for disaster.Hence, join now in outpatient programs to improve mental health and to get rid off alcohol addiction.The good news is that intervening early with appropriate treatments can reverse the harmful effects…
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Vitamin D – Why Can’t We Be Proactive?
Vitamin D, the “sunshine vitamin”, forms the core of one of the longest fortification stories in the nutritional sphere. New research continues to support the ever-wider benefits for the vitamin. The naysayers continue to attempt to disagree with research results. Why are we so hesitant about embracing the benefits of vitamin D to our patients?…
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Fighting Quackery
I’m not popular with many cancer patients, particularly those who love their alternative practitioners. Many of us seem to want to believe in voodoo and witchcraft. We will happily throw away hard-earned cash, swallow buckets of pills and submit ourselves to weird and fanciful ceremonies – just because our naturopath, homeopath, chiropractor, intuitive healer or…
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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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HPV Vaccine and One Young Australian Woman Becomes Another Victim
Editor’s Note: The following material has been prepared by Judy Wilyman and it appears in i2P because it illustrates vaccine damage to children, and their families, first hand. Damage that is concealed from politicians and health care professionals. These damaged people have formed themselves into a fighting group – as is their right. i2P would…
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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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Vaccine Lobbying Australian-Style: HPV Vaccine Questioned
Editor’s Note: There is something sick about the medico-political structure in Australia, and indeed most other western economies. 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…
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Is AHPRA Failing To Protect Us?
Submitting a complaint against false and misleading claims for therapeutic goods is easy, but the same cannot be said for therapeutic services. While there is still no effective way to challenge unregistered practitioners, the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency (AHPRA) was established in 2010, to work in partnership with our National Boards with a “primary…
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NPS Medicinewise Reappoints Debbie Rigby To The Board
Consultant pharmacist Ms Debbie Rigby has been reappointed to the NPS MedicineWise board for a third and final three-year term. NPS MedicineWise Chair Dr Janette Randall congratulated Ms Rigby and thanked her for her ongoing commitment to the work of the organisation. “Debbie has been a strong performer for NPS MedicineWise and continually demonstrates her…
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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.…