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Nutritional Supplement Safety Profile Proven To Be 100 Percent Safe
Editor’s Note: Don’t you get sick and tired of so-called “news” items that deliver alarmist type bytes concerning the safety profile of vitamins, minerals and supplements. It is an endless litany of irrelevant detail promoted by drug manufacturers because they know that if a lie is repeated often enough it becomes the truth. Joseph Goebbels,…
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Collaboration- What does it mean for health professions?
The new “buzz” word floating around the health professions is “collaboration”. In the same breath it is linked to other expressions such as “patient-centred homes” or “patient-centred neighbourhoods”. But what does it all mean – particularly when referenced in respect of community pharmacy? Starting with the dictionary terminology we find collaboration means: 1. “the action…
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Australian Vaccination Policy – the Debate Continues
Editor’s Note: It was interesting to follow the recent reports about the AFL Club of Essendon and their injecting of banned supplements into 34 of their club’s players. All 34, who were injected with the banned substance thymosin beta-4, were suspended for a period of two years. The tribunal conducting the case noted that individual players…
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There is Nothing Right About This Onslaught
It is time the pharmaceutical community should wake up and become aware of some of the biased agendas surrounding them. One of our specialist writers, Dr Judy Wilyman PhD has been surrounded by controversy because she dared to select as her PhD thesis subject “A critical analysis of the Australian government’s rationale for its vaccination…
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Confused over chromium?
It’s often difficult to get the true picture when you hear and read a sensational report about a nutritional supplement causing cancer. Erin Brockovich brought chromium into the spotlight because of the 2000 movie and book, in which there was shown to be a link between an elevated cluster of illnesses, including cancer, to hexavalent…
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Taking the Initiative with Co-Pay
Chemist Warehouse, as you would have imagined, has taken the initiative to discount the co-pay for PBS prescriptions by $1.00. The impact on a retail pharmacy like the warehouse model is not quite the same as for a community pharmacy, because budgets for retail pharmacies are geared for lower profit percentages combined with higher turnover…
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A Home Doesn’t Need to Have a Single Roof – Because it Might Need to be a Neighbourhood
The “buzz words” floating around the newly discovered world of primary health care are “Patient-Centred Homes”, a concept where a focus is generated on a patient through a triage process where patients are provided an efficient sequential introduction to the health resource most required by those patients under the one roof. Results to date in…
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Shopping
In this ever-changing world we have constant disruption. Beliefs that we once held for marketing concepts are forever changing as consumers react to the environment around them. And the online environment, while having many presentations and converts, is an environment that community pharmacists have yet to fully embrace and conquer. Particularly in the portrayal of…
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Interesting weight loss perception
The Australian Doctor online flashed an interesting headline recently titled “10 weight-loss products pharmacists push most”. Other than the offensive tone of the actual headline, it serves a timely reminder that weight loss is not solved by simply selling a product. So, in spite of this belittling attack, let’s look at what is implied here.…
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Countdown Has Commenced And It Is Woolworths’ Pharmacy Being Launched
In an article I wrote on June 1, 2015, I said: “Influential shareholders of Woolworths are seeking to invite Roger Corbett, the nemesis of Australian pharmacy, back into the fold as chairman.” “Corbett has been carefully planning succession to his current position of chairman of Fairfax Media Ltd citing very early in the process that…