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I’ve been thinking about minding the gap, looking right, and a potential blind spot in the medication-use process.
There is little pedestrian about being a pedestrian in the UK. It pays to heed the painted warnings underfoot between the platforms and trains throughout the color-coded labyrinth of the famed Underground—“MIND THE GAP.” It is paramount, however, to heed the painted curbs at nearly every intersection—“LOOK RIGHT.” Perhaps you’ve had your close call…
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Biased Reporting on the ABC Breakfast Program
To the ABC Breakfast Presenters: Virginia Trioli and Michael Rowland On 29 May 2015 you interviewed the popular cartoonist Michael Leunig about his cartoons advocating freedom of speech and informed consent in vaccination. You dismissed the right of individuals to choose how many vaccines they use by claiming that the ‘science is proven’ and that anti-vaccination…
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How pharmaceutical marketing is harming us, and the seven reforms we need now
“I may sound like a conspiracy theorist nut when I say this but the pharmaceutical companies are master manipulators…” begins Dr Martin Whitely, Senior Advocate for the WA based Health Consumers Council. “… They rip off Australian taxpayers via the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and pull the wool over the eyes of drug safety regulators everywhere.”…
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HPV vaccine survivors in the Czech Republic
Editor’s Note: We continue to publish material that does not seem to enter mainstream press or medical journals. The following is similar to other reports made from a range of countries who are now reviewing their protocols and usage of this vaccine. i2P takes the position of supporting safe vaccination and would recommend to any…
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Implantable Device Delivers Medicine One Molecule at a Time
It could be used someday to treat fractured spines, pinched nerves, and epilepsy. It’s smaller than your index finger, and it might be the future of implantable devices to treat a fractured spine, pinched nerve, or neurological disorder like epilepsy. As they report in the journal Science today, a team of engineers and medical researchers in Sweden has…
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Orthomolecular Treatment for Adverse Effects of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Vaccine
Editor’s Note: i2P stands for “Safe Vaccination” and does not support the extreme stances of the “anti-vaxers” or the “pro-vaxers”. For this reason we encourage pharmacists to carefully read the comments contained in the news item below, because they are evidence-based and valid. They highlight the unsafe qualities of one vaccine (HPV) containing aluminium as…
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Evidence Based Design Will Encourage Patient Outcomes
A pharmacy environment is a complex one of patients, customers, products and services. It is a little understood environment because evidence surrounding its structure and presentation is sparse. All the elements require integration. It’s one thing to spruce up a space aesthetically, but it’s equally important to address the underlying conditions to support the experience…
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The truth about herbal ‘medicines’
Herbal medicines have been defined as “an unknown dose of an ill-defined drug, of unknown effectiveness and unknown safety“. Now under the spotlight by regulators in the US, the UK, Canada and here in Australia, do they work, are they safe and do you even get what you pay for? More than 60% of Australians…
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IOM states Vaccines can cause Autism
Currently the Australian government is considering removing the philosophical exemptions to vaccines yet in 2001 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) stated that vaccines are a plausible cause of autism. This link was not confirmed because it was stated that further research was needed to prove the causal mechanism. In other words, the link has not…
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I’ve been thinking about minding the gap, looking right, and a potential blindspot in the medication-use process.
There is little pedestrian about being a pedestrian in the UK. It pays to heed the painted warnings underfoot between the platforms and trains throughout the color-coded labyrinth of the famed Underground—“MIND THE GAP.” It is paramount, however, to heed the painted curbs at nearly every intersection—“LOOK RIGHT.” Perhaps you’ve had your close call with…