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How contaminated is Australia’s Health Gateway?
Given the reports that flow in regularly from around the world, have you ever wondered how contaminated Australia’s health gateway is as a reality? While Australia has regulations that make payments to doctors from Global Pharma’s a mandatory requirement, does anyone have any real trust in what is actually disclosed? And as we go through the…
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The King and I – Shall we Dance?
Speculation is growing that the King Review – a review of future pharmacy options for the federal government – has been asked to consider two additional options: * Open ownership including supermarkets and foreign operators. * A government-owned franchise model involving full nationalisation of the pharmacy sector. The reasons given for the investigation of these…
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The Pauline Hanson Echo Chamber and the Manufacturing of Consent in Science
Pauline Hanson recently ignited an echo chamber of media opinion, (major outrage building on previous outrage of reporters covering other reporters covering other reporters’ outrage), because she expressed a view on the ABC’s Insider Program that: “parents needed to make an ‘informed’ decision about whether or not to vaccinate their children”. “What I don’t like…
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Value Over Profit ?
When pharmacy comes under financial pressure it always looks for a “quick fix” and it usually takes the form of concentrating resources and focus into various retail channels of activity. Even though pharmacists are criticised for expanding their retail offering and daring to create survival profits, it is a necessary activity to ensure that the…
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4 Corners or 4 Circles?
Two brilliantly interwoven stories over the last ten days or so have given the ABC and Fairfax media plenty of fodder to attack pharmacists and the complementary medicine industry. In the first instance, pharmacists came under fire over the allegation that having been “shadow shopped” by Choice reporters over the question of the best options…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis
I2P has been proactive in identifying the potential of medical cannabis as a tool for clinical pharmacists and a useful treatment for chronically ill patients – particularly the elderly prone to suffering chronic conditions characterised with an underlying common factor of inflammation. People can also buy medical cannabis or marijuana in Real CBD store. Now,…
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The “Bent Spoon” award developed by people with bent thinking
Skeptics Australia, is an organisation noted for its biased opinions and its campaigning against a range of health groups. Originally it was set up to debunk paranormal issues but its agenda seems to have been hijacked by people reflecting the vested interests of global corporates, in particular, those of Big Pharma. I have commented in…
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United in Compassion – Medical Marijuana and Dan’s Story
Editor’s Note: As most i2P subscribers would know, we carry a range of information on diverse topics, one of which is medical marijuana. i2P has been encouraging pharmacists to become engaged with medical marijuana as Cannabis Directory Australia does because of the promise of major health benefits, also a product that could impact on the…
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Medical Maijuana – will Australian Community Pharmacies consider the legislation of Uruguay?
Ministers in the South American country Uruguay have voted in support of a new law, known as 19.172 and enacted in December 2013, to permit marijuana to be sold for non-medicinal use. They also accepted the offer by Uruguay’s community pharmacy owners to sell the drug through their outlets. The community pharmacy owners argue that community pharmacies…
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Herd Immunity is Hypothesis Based On Natural Infection – Not Vaccination Pseudoscience
We have known for decades that getting the childhood diseases naturally results in a permanent immunity (herd immunity) to the specific microorganism. Getting the vaccines results in a temporary immunity, meaning that susceptibility is deferred and repeated booster shots will be required for the ENTIRE life of the individual. The herd immunity hypothesis states that…