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Menopause and “alternative” therapies
The recurring press chestnuts just keep rolling on and on, just as predictable as the four seasons. It seems that medical efforts to classify menopause as a disease state have failed miserably. Women are now seeking advice on other options from their medical practitioner. However, because of poor training, poor understanding of what role menopause…
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Clinical Pharmacy – a US Working Model
There is an excellent US publication available online and its title is “Drug Topics”. I probably have some affinity because the range of topics discussed ranges from pharmacy management to clinical pharmacy, somewhat similar to material published in i2P. One recent article caught my eye, and it was titled: The new pharmacy: Revenue streams, Part…
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Paint the Ceilings
I’ve been thinking about pizza, ceilings, and what we want from airlines and caregivers. I am a frequent flier, United 1K, in the interest of full disclosure. Last week, I was chatting with a fellow passenger who holds the airline’s highest status—Global Services. You can guess what two road warriors who’ve endured a hundred thousand…
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The Key Word is Strategy – and it Will Stimulate Clinical Service Design
With the pressure continuing to mount to design a range of clinical services for pharmacists, i2P advises that you need to design each type of service using a basic architecture and strategy. This will unify your approach and make it easier to communicate your concept to other health professionals and potential patients. This approach for…
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The Workforce Summit, Senior Pharmacists, Aged Care & Designing a More Inclusive Succession System
The emergence of a “think tank” for Australian pharmacy ought to be a significant event, but you would never think so because it is so “low key”, It was recently responsible for the pharmacy profession’s first ever Australian Pharmacist Workforce Summit, ‘uniting our profession for a sustainable future’ – an event that was held on…
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The Australian Government’s New Childcare Package
The Australian government’s recently proposed childcare package has mandated the ‘full’ schedule of childhood vaccines (up to the age of 19) in order for families to receive government welfare benefits of $15,000. This package has removed the right of parents to refuse any of the 12 vaccines recommended for infants if they wish to receive…
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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…
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Half of All Children Will Be Autistic by 2025, Warns Senior Research Scientist at MIT
Editor’s Note: In our last edition we ran information pertaining to Homeopaths and the NHMRC committee investigating the effectiveness of this modality. A number of inconsistencies and procedures were highlighted as the NHMRC appeared to be manufacturing a report to conform to certain extreme views of some medical groups, rather than a true evidence-based approach…
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The Gap Report & Its Opportunities
Self Care has been a platform of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia for as long as I can remember. It is good that it is at last receiving government recognition, particularly as it so easily fits a platform of patients taking responsibility for their own care and that the education required for patients is a…
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Reinventing the Condom with a range of useful benefits
A group of scientists in Australia is developing a series of condoms which it claims could feel even better than wearing nothing at all. A team at the University of Wollongong (UOW) have been experimenting with hydrogel materials, which they say have a range of benefits over latex. Ultra-strong and flexible, hydrogels have been around…