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Fish Oil Capsules Get Blamed For Unreported Drug Interactions – Now THERE’S a Surprise . . .
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, May 4, 2016 In what is getting to be known as the anti-dietary supplement journal, JAMA Internal Medicine is at it yet again. The journal recently reported on changes in prescription drug and dietary supplements from 2005 to 2011, with prescription drug use rising from 84.1% to 87.7% and dietary supplements from 51.8%…
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Why are health professionals so hostile to each other?
The amount of hostility among health professionals seems to be at an all-time high. Are “scope of practice” and “turf” battles really escalating, or it it just more visible in this modern era of anonymous comments and online posts? The conversation gets louder and uglier. Patients are complex creatures. Medical care is multi-faceted. We see…
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Letters, Newsletters and Abstracts in Support of Your Human Rights Surrounding Vaccination Policy
Editor’s Note: Tirelessly, Judy Wilyman has been conducting a campaign against bad vaccination policy. In this process she has peeled back the layers of Pharma financial interest that is the primary cause of this policy distortion. As in the US, Pharma is beginning to “own” government in Australia. In the two weeks preceding this edition…
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COMMENT ON NCP REVIEWS AND WHAT CAN BE LEARNED – A Tribute to Rollo Manning
Editor’s Note: Rollo Manning was my strongest critic. i2P began life originally as Computachem Newsletter. The first publication was transmitted in February 2000 and immediately attracted the attention of pharmacist Rollo Manning who sent me a broadside of questions that demanded immediate answers. With laser-like precision he dismantled my thoughts, my presentation – just about everything…
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Medical Cannabis – a Product That Clinical Pharmacists Could Match to Chronic Illness
While there has been movement in the right direction in getting medical cannabis on to the market in Australia there are still some glaring anomalies in its introduction and you would have to ask “Why?” Where I live in NSW I am on the fringe of some of the best cannabis growing soils and climate…
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Boots Accused of Profiteering Over Professionalism
Boots has been accused of boosting its profits by forcing staff to abuse an NHS scheme intended to help sick patients. Managers at Britain’s biggest pharmacy chain were found to be directing their pharmacists to provide medicine-use reviews (MUR’s) to patients who didn’t need them, in order to claim public money from the NHS. The NHS…
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The Tide is Turning Against Medical Skeptics, Fraudulent Science and Corrupt Politicians
Editor’s Note: At last the tide is turning against those dupes who have become paid mouthpieces for Big Pharma as their enormous program of duplicity begins to unravel. Researchers like Australia’s Judy Wilyman have documented the facts. But unconventional methods for spreading information for rational and open debate have had to be used because debate…
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Medical postcard from New York, April 2016
Dear Colleagues, I can report that spring has sprung in New York. After a cold start, April has seen a wonderful transition from winter bareness to a colour-wheel of splendid blossoms, bulbs and canopy greenery. Easter was early this year and so were the cherry blossoms which are at their peak over a week before…
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The Corporate Capture of Democracy (and Community Pharmacy)
GetUp! sent me an email that included the following words: “Major corporations in Australia just threatened a $20 million campaign blitz, to hold onto their power and avoid scrutiny of their scandalous conduct. But from the rise of Bernie Sanders, to the fall of Iceland’s tax dodging Prime Minister, there’s a new popular global uprising…
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The State We Are In
NONE of our so called representative bodies have accepted ANY RESPONSIBILITY for the downright dismal and depressing state the so called Pharmacy profession finds itself in. The Pharmacy Guild- represents Pharmacy owners who would only comprise some 10-15% of ALL the 29,150 Pharmacists on the AHPRA register (Nov 2015 figures). The Guild has a major…