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Avatars May Take Over Patient Communications – Where to from there?
Global Pharma’s are known to be funding the development of systems to deal directly with patients. These systems will involve the use of Artificial Intelligence and the use of Volumetric 3D immersion technologies. The former will allow delivery of technical information through well modulated voice transmission, while the latter will provide an “avatar” transformed from…
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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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Meditating on our health
Editor’s Note: It is refreshing to see information published by an authoritative Australian source that promotes non-drug therapy, or therapies that will support other forms of treatment, and be supported by evidence. As pharmacists we are often aware of various forms of treatments (including meditation) that are supported by evidence, but we still have to…
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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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I’ll never forget what’s-his-name
A man had gone to a circus as a small boy and decided to return years later. He was sitting in a cheap seat when an elephant came along, reached up into the stands, wrapped his trunk gently about the man and carried him over to the best seat. The man turned to his…
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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 Latest Research on Holistic Health – Are you up to it?
Pharmacists demand the latest evidence- and research-based information on things related to complementary medicines. Some of us were lucky enough to hear an array of international speakers at the recent Research Symposium presented for the 4th consecutive year by BioCeuticals. And each symposium seems to get better! World renowned neurologist David Perlmutter, paediatric gastroenterologist and…