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The Risks of Irregular Sleep
A new study on sleep patterns suggests that a regular bedtime and wake time are just as important for heart and metabolic health among older adults. In a study of 1,978 older adults publishing recently in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers at Duke Health and the Duke Clinical Research Institute found people with irregular sleep patterns…
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OMNS – Five MORE Fluoride-Condemning Studies Published
Five new published studies support previous research linking fluoride to thyroid disease; ADHD; overdosing formula-fed infants and bias in government reports. Another reveals pregnant Canadians have higher urine fluoride levels in fluoridated vs. non-fluoridated areas which previous studies linked to offspring’s lower IQ. Fluoride exposure coupled with iodine deficiency is linked to thyroid disease, report…
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Medical drugs: too big to fail
As my readers know, I’ve reported on a number of scandals concerning the toxicity of medical drugs and vaccines, including shocking death numbers in the US. These scandals are leaks from inside the National Security State. If you visit Wikileaks, Cryptome, Public Intelligence, and other similar sites, how many purely medical documents do you find…
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Prepare For The Future By Learning From Your Past
A farmer famed for his agricultural know-how once hired a neighbor’s teenage son to help him do the spring plowing. The farmer believed in letting people do their work without undue supervision, so he placed the boy on the tractor and went over the hill to work on another field. Anxious to plow straight furrows,…
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Pharmacy in the Home (PIH) – Designing Your Future Direction
This is a project that has finally gained traction with community pharmacy leadership. As a reference exercise, i2P plans to condense its knowledge of PIH projects and deliver this content to readers, spread over a number of articles. The necessity of the project is self evident when you consider age demographics of the Australian population.…
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Have we lost the importance of touch?
Touch can show gentleness and compassion, or it can show carelessness or incompetence. Many of our patients feel that being touched is important to getting better. Gentle touching when examining an injured area, inspecting an irritated and angry skin patch or just comforting a person who hasn’t had an ideal medical diagnosis has become a…
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The Capture of Health Freedom
“So you start off in charge, you’re an independent operator, you don’t work inside the system, but then you figure out the system thinks it includes you, some moron must have slipped in that clause while you weren’t looking, so you go talk to him, and it’s a pretty congenial meeting, although he does come…
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Remember To Work On Keeping Your Memory
American mathematician Norbert Wiener had a reputation for being a little absent-minded. According to one story, when his family moved to a new Massachusetts home, his wife insisted on supervising every detail of the move because she couldn’t depend on Wiener to remember the important details – like their new address.Wiener went to work on…
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Community Pharmacy Market Research – Very Slow in Uptake
In a recent edition of Forefront (published by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia) a news item regarding some new market research delivered by ORIMA Research for the PGA “shows that patients want pharmacy-led services delivered in-home and more health services delivered in pharmacies”. This information evidently forms part of a PGA strategic plan titled CP2025.…
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NHMRC – Science Fact or Fiction?
Some scandalous issues have occurred behind the scenes. Australia’s peak medical research body, the National Health & Medical Research Council, has admitted under Senate scrutiny that they did not follow recognized scientific guidelines or standards in reviewing evidence on homeopathy, using an approach also applied to reviews of other natural therapies. The Homeopathy Review was…