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Australia a new growth market for cannabis
Australia has been flagged as a growth market for medical cannabis. A company that has listed on the Australian Securities Exchange hopes to capitalise on a growing worldwide demand for medicinal cannabis. Clinical trials are currently being organised in NSW and announcements are expected around mid-2015. According to Chicago cannabis industry attorney Davis Legal, PLLC,…
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Downstream From Hospital Re-admissions
The US hospital system has finally discovered its pharmacy department in respect of its ability to help in the prevention of re-admissions – a very costly exercise. Of course, frustrated hospital pharmacists, both in the US and here in Australia, knew that this was feasible. However, the system here in Australia seems to be permanently…
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Freedom of Speech in Australia and the HPV Vaccine
Editor’s Note: The incident described in the material below is presented by Judy Wilyman, a PhD candidate. As a PhD student, she of all people is mentored in the correct aspects of developing medical evidence. As she has developed her thesis she has found many shortfalls in official evidence, particularly that surrounding the hysteria that…
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Report on Government Services 2015 Volume E: Health – the Silo You Will Struggle to Live In
This year marks the twentieth edition of the Report on Government Services – a remarkable milestone for a unique report providing comparative information on the performance of government services (so says the government). The Report is produced by the Productivity Commission for an inter-governmental Steering Committee. Peter Harris, Chairman of the Productivity Commission and the…
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I’ve been thinking about drugs, wars, Christmases, and your hospital (the one you work in and/or the one you go to as a patient).
On my daily walks, I’ve been listening to Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. I’m at Christmas of 1943—the year Bing Crosby’s newly recorded “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” began tugging at souls on radios across America. The tug persists. Though the bestseller’s central figure, Louis Zamperini, did…
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Signs Future Clinical Trial Data Will be Transparent
In December of 2012, the BMJ announced a new policy regarding the sharing of data from clinical trials that included that BMJ would not publish material for trials on drugs and medical devices unless the authors committed to making the relevant anonymised patient level data available on reasonable request. This was to apply to any…
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New 9 Strain HPV Vaccine Has Double the Aluminium.
Double the Aluminium (500 mcg) in the New 9 Strain HPV Vaccine Many of us were informed (19 December 2014) by a research fellow in infrastructure modelling, Matthew Berryman, that a new HPV vaccine covering 9 strains of HPV has just been approved by the FDA. However the notification did not include the fact that the…
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Vaccines and Genetic Diseases
Recently there has been discussion about the genetic cause of many chronic diseases that have increased in the population in recent decades. These diseases include allergies, asthma, anaphylaxis, autism, diabetes and other neurological and autoimmune diseases: all of which have increased significantly in children after the push to increase vaccination rates in the 1990’s. Whilst…
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OHMS – Reducing Fluoride Exposure
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, December 12, 2014 How to Reduce Exposure to Fluoride by Stuart Cooper, Fluoride Action Network (OMNS Dec 12, 2014) When fluoride was first added to water in the 1940s, in an experiment to prevent tooth decay, not a single dental product contained fluoride: no fluoride toothpastes, no fluoride mouth rinses, no…
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Will “Complementary Medicines (CMs)” save us billions?
A pharmacy journal headline recently proclaimed “$1.8b benefit from [Complementary Medicine] CM”.Based on Potential Health Outcomes & Cost Savings in Australia, a report funded by the Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI), only one of the six treatments investigated was actually “complementary”, in that they are a useful adjunct to doctor-prescribed therapies. Are claims that CM’s…