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BMJ article: increasing overdoses but they ignore known solutions (+ Hari TED talk).
Dear Colleagues, There is no more ‘final’ statistic regarding drug use than overdose deaths. And in England the official figures go back to Victorian times, then often involving opium, laudanum and other strong drugs including alcohol. The British Coroner’s Act of 1844 was ahead of its time and even pre-dated the famous Broad Street Pump…
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Social Services Legislation Amendment (No Jab, No Pay) Bill 2015
Here is the link to the Australian government’s new Social Services Legislation Amendment (No Jab, No Pay) Bill 2015. This bill was presented in parliament and referred to the Senate Community Affairs Committee for inquiry and report on 17 September 2015.Submissions for this inquiry must be made before 16 October 2016. The reporting date for the…
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Vaccine Mechanism of Harm Exposed in Gardasil Vaccine
L-Histidine + Injection = Histamine Release + Excess Histamine Excess Inflammation = Histamine Intolerance? There are times in our lives when it seems like we come full circle in our findings. This is one of those times for me. Early on in my research into the HPV vaccines I knew that the L-Histidine, which is…
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Cell Phone Can Alter Brain Structure And Function
A new clinical study has found that just 15 minutes of cell phone talk time radiation exposure can alter the structure and function of the brain, including brain wave activity that is connected to cognition, mood and behaviour. Thirty-one healthy females took part in the study, published in PLOS ONE; all participants were measured twice. On…
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Smart dressings speed healing of chronic wounds
Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology are developing innovative nanofibre meshes that might draw bacteria out of wounds and speed up the healing process. The research is the focus of Swinburne PhD candidate Martina Abrigo, who received the university’s Chancellor’s Research Scholarship to undertake this work. Using a technique called electrospinning – in which…
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Pharmacists – Who Works for your Best Interests?
Now that the dust has settled around negotiations for 6CPA and that word “certainty” has crept back into the vocabulary once more, we are supposed to now relax and get on with the job of future-proofing the profession of pharmacy. But what “certainties” can we count on? With the current business model still having a…
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Power of the media’s impact on medicine use revealed
More than 60,000 Australians are estimated to have reduced or discontinued their use of prescribed cholesterol-lowering statin medications following the airing of a two-part series critical of statins by ABC TV’s science program, Catalyst, a University of Sydney study reveals in the latest Medical Journal of Australia. The analysis of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme medication…
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Balanced view in professional opinions
The new-look Australian Journal of Pharmacy heralds a interesting direction in medical marketing and related advertising. The front cover and inside two pages tell us that Panadol Osteo is “Australia’s No 1 pain reliever brand for osteoarthritis”. Pharmacists insist on “evidence” when discussions emerge on other options for arthritic pain, and accordingly, may I supply…
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Half of All Children Will Be Autistic by 2025, Warns Senior Research Scientist at MIT
Editor’s Note: In our last edition we ran information pertaining to Homeopaths and the NHMRC committee investigating the effectiveness of this modality. A number of inconsistencies and procedures were highlighted as the NHMRC appeared to be manufacturing a report to conform to certain extreme views of some medical groups, rather than a true evidence-based approach…
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Semi-starvation diets offer new hope for obesity with binge eating
Severe diets don’t necessarily lead to binge eating and could be used to treat obesity without risking the disorder, according to new research from the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre and the University of Western Sydney. The surprising discovery suggests that severe diets, such as those involving meal-replacement shakes, don’t necessarily exacerbate binge-eating behaviour.…