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Next Generation Vaccines Built to Alter Human Genetics
Altering human genetics through vaccination The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has launched efforts to create a vaccine that would protect people from most flu strains, all at once, with a single shot. Over the years, I’ve written many articles refuting claims that vaccines are safe and effective, but we’ll put all…
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The Safe Vaccine Debate – 1. Samer Hakim: Gardasil/Cervarix HPV Vaccination – to jab or not to jab? 2. Dr Judy Wilyman: Newsletters #201 & #202 3. Robert Kennedy’s World Mercury Project: Vaccines and the Liberal Mind
1. Samer Hakim: Gardasil/Cervarix HPV Vaccination – to jab or not to jab? Editor’s Note: We are pleased to publish a research report from an Australian pharmacist who has some issues with some vaccines marketed in Australia. He makes his comments independently, even going to the extent of producing a video to record his findings. All…
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Mistakes Are Opportunities To Learn
A young vice president was appointed by the board of directors of a bank to replace the retiring president and founder. With fear and trepidation, he made an appointment to visit with the seasoned retiree to seek his advice. “Mr. Clark, I need your counsel. How can I possibly be successful in this job?” The…
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Marketing Focus – 1. THE “HAWTHORNE EFFECT” LIVES ON. 2. SERIOUSLY, FUN 3. TRUE TO YOURSELF 4. INITIATING, NOT MANAGING CHANGE 5. GUARANTEED – REALLY?
1. THE “HAWTHORNE EFFECT” LIVES ON. It warrants attention, involvement and refinement by all the lessons learnt have been profound, but often unexpected. During the 1950s academics from University of Chicago undertook a study of employee performance at The Western Electric plant in the locality of Hawthorne, Illinois, United States of America. They were studying,…
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Bypass the AMA if Collaborative Ventures are Required for Unmet Patient Needs
It is becoming apparent that the medical profession leadership has clearly “lost the plot” in direction-setting, patient engagement and collaborative health when you analyse statements attributable to AMA leaders at their recent national conference. Cries that GP’s feel “under assault” through pharmacists encroaching into “their” territory of vaccinations and sick certificates, with no mention of better…
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What’s going on here?
Interesting reporting from within the medical/pharmacy media about the ego-driven (on both sides) reporting of the pharmacists versus doctors. There’s nothing new here, but why the sensational reporting? It’s even come down to the “evidence” – “you show me yours and I’ll show you mine…….we’ll agree to disagree and then retreat to our professions”. The…
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Many Ordinary Meds Cause Depression; Public Trust in Pharma Hits New Low
For years, I’ve been writing about the medical system’s self-feeding mechanism:Give a patient a drug to treat his symptoms; the drug causes new symptoms, which are diagnosed as a new illness; and then new drugs are given, and those drugs cause still more symptoms, which in turn are diagnosed as a new condition…on and on…
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Encouragement Unleashes Potential
Thomas Edison’s teacher said he was a poor student. His mother was furious at that characterization and took him out of school and taught him at home. Edison gave this account of the incident in an interview published on Nov. 29, 1907: “One day I overheard the teacher tell the inspector that I was ‘addled’ and it…
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A Sensible Community Pharmacy & GP Collaboration
In a win for commonsense, a professional collaboration between community pharmacists and local GP’s coupled with a simultaneous a solution for a major public health problem, a mutually respectful system has been piloted in the County of Staffordshire in the UK. And patients involved in the pilot study have documented high levels of satisfaction, simply because…
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Can we make a difference on mental health?
It’s Men’s Health Week, and I’m sure that you are aware of the shocking statistics surrounding depression in men. The reasons why men seem to be so vulnerable are debated constantly, but statistics don’t lie. We pharmacists are in a rather privileged position to help. Or, on the other hand, we can decide not to…