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Understanding Medical Cannabis – 1. Addiction Experts Beg Govt. to Scrap Welfare Drug Tests 2. People Who Think Punitive Measures Help Drug Addicts Have Not Seen What I have 3. Single Dose CBD Shown to Reduce Blood Pressure
1. Huffington Post: Addiction Experts Beg Government To Scrap Welfare Drug Tests Aug. 19th, 2017 Some of Australia’s foremost experts on addiction have pleaded for the federal government to scrap its controversial plan to drug test welfare recipients, saying the program’s negative impacts far outweigh its benefits and that it will further swamp an already struggling treatment…
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Safe Vaccine Debate – 1. Cinema Libre: Injecting Aluminium 2. The VaccineReaction.org: Australia’s Draconian Vaccine Laws 3. Dr Judy Wileyman Report: Open Letter to University of Wollongong & Newsletter #170
1. Cinema Libre: Injecting Aluminium In the early 90s, a mysterious muscular disease began to surface among multiple patients in France. A team of doctors in Paris discovered that these patients had developed a new disease called Macrophagic Myofascitis, or MMF, which occurs when the aluminum hydroxide adjuvant from a vaccine remains embedded in the muscle…
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Pharmacists are primary in healthcare and its economics
One of the most successful marketing slogans ever developed by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia (PGA) was: “Ask your family chemist – he knows!” The public response to it was massive and just seemed to hit the right nerve. Its popularity eventually irritated the medical profession who couldn’t understand how a pharmacist might know more…
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Clinical Services – What Patients Will Pay For
Pharmacists have always been well regarded by their patients for their ability to deliver health literacy programs, over the counter in semi-private spaces in roughly three to five minute segments. Generally, this service has been delivered free of charge and it has formed a nearly invisible component of “core” business. Only invisible because it was free,…
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Statin Therapy – A new Low?
I have a 90 year-old female patient who is physically OK but starting to face the reality of dementia. She showed me the “lovely” invitation from her GP to enroll in the StaREE trial. StaREE is the acronym (don’t you love them!) for “Statins in Reducing Events in the Elderly”. A quaint idea, brilliantly conceived…
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Medical Culture (and others) in Decline – the real reason for attacks on pharmacy and other health modalities.
We have been witnessing some extraordinary behaviour by the leaders of the medical profession (AMA, RACGP) that might make you wonder what hallucinogen they may have been taking, given the extreme claims of pharmacy creating a turf war, and their ridiculous claims of highly-trained pharmacists lacking skills to perform at different levels. They act panic-stricken…
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A Glimpse of the Future – The King Review Interim Report Nightmare
That the King Review is a front for something more sinister would be obvious to most pharmacists and the industry at large. That it purports to be a review towards a positive future for community pharmacy is an insult to anyone’s intelligence. i2P has already made the case for what the real agenda for Australian…
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Hysteria personified – the perceived “anti-statin” cult!
Well, it’s finally happened. The demand that every single Australian over 40 be placed on statin therapy hasn’t been fulfilled. Questions being being asked by patients include: Can you explain the different particle sizes of the cholesterol reading you have, and explain where the risk lies…..is it really all about HDL and LDL? You have…
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Behind the Scenes in Natural Therapeutic Medicine
Did you notice the new name? I’ve decided that “natural medicine” doesn’t hold much credence any more. I’m saying that if we can have a therapeutic benefit in an option to powerful medications, then let’s call a spade a bloody shovel!. A meeting of many of the modalities in Melbourne last weekend, attended by some…
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Safe Vaccine Debate – 1. The Dr Judy Wilyman Report 2. World Mercury Project – Hiding Vaccine Related Deaths
1. The Dr Judy Wilyman Report: Newsletter 165 Vaccination: The Removal of “Informed Consent without Coercion” in Australia 18 July 2017 Open Letter To the University of Wollongong (UOW) Academics and the concerned Australian community, The removal of “informed consent without coercion” with the mandating of 16 vaccines in government social welfare policies is a violation…