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Hysteria personified – the perceived “anti-statin” cult!
Well, it’s finally happened. The demand that every single Australian over 40 be placed on statin therapy hasn’t been fulfilled. Questions being being asked by patients include: Can you explain the different particle sizes of the cholesterol reading you have, and explain where the risk lies…..is it really all about HDL and LDL? You have…
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Take a few minutes to learn the two-minute drill
I could fill volumes about chance meetings that have changed people’s lives, led to jobs, business opportunities, partnerships, new ideas . . . all because people sought other people with similar interests. The secret is to seek them out. Every time I’m in a line, on a plane, at a sporting event, wherever … I…
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Marketing Focus – Essays on Management & Marketing
READING THE CUES Seeking out, analysing and reacting to the multitude of cues that abound in the economy, marketplace and competitive sectoral segments can be, and is, exhausting, frustrating – and often futile. Deliberating about, and conducting informed “right” decisions are beyond the scope and capacities of many. Much of the available information, perspectives and…
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Understanding Medical Cannabis – 1. The Pharmaceutical Journal -MS Charity Recommends Cannabis be legal 2. Sydney Criminal Lawyers – Opposes Victorian Blanket Legislation 3. Australian Company to Provide Cannabis for Australian Prescription Market
1. The Pharmaceutical Journal 31 JUL 2017: MS charity says cannabis should be legalised for medicinal use UK should follow the lead of Germany and Canada and legalise the drug for people with multiple sclerosis, a condition that already has a licensed cannabis-derived treatment, says MS Society. Multiple sclerosis is the only condition that has a licensed…
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Safe Vaccine Debate – 1. World Mercury Project – HPV Vaccination 2. Dr Judy Wilyman Report – Newsletters #166 & #167 3.EU Court Ruling May Hold Vaccine Manufacturers Accountable
1. World Mercury Project Aug. 4th, 2017: High-Risk HPV Type Replacement Follows HPV Vaccination The number of studies that show that partial immunization via available HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccines is not only insufficient at reducing overall HPV infection rates; the vaccines actually cause rarer, more lethal types of HPV to sweep in and the net…
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PSA Media Releases – Nine Current News Releases
1. Aboriginal health service pharmacist SIG launched July 31, 2017 In recognition of the growing number of pharmacists working in Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs), the peak national body for pharmacists, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) has launched the ACCHO Special Interest Group (SIG). The ACCHO SIG was launched on Sunday 30 July…
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NPS Media – Australian Prescriber Volume 40 Issue 4 August 2017
ARTICLE Immunisation and pregnancy What are the benefits of recommending vaccination to pregnant women? ARTICLE Chronic heart failure Managing chronic heart failure – which drugs should be used in which patients? ARTICLE Community use of naloxone for opioid overdose Will training laypeople in the use of naloxone reduce accidental opioid overdose deaths?
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EDITORIAL for Monday, 24 July 2017
Welcome to the current edition of i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine dated Monday 24 July 2017. The lunatics are now in control of the asylum! Apart from inhibiting a local medical cannabis industry and the associated useful products that can evolve from hemp (the non-drug food and fibre variety- and for this area think of…
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Australia is Number Two in Global Health Rankings – But for How Long?
Periodically, the US-based Commonwealth Fund organisation compares the US health system to that of other countries, including Australia. The Australian health system ranks very high in its performance and i2P believes there are two major reasons for this outside of the criteria established by the Commonwealth Fund. The first is the diversity of health practitioners…
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Behind the Scenes in Natural Therapeutic Medicine
Did you notice the new name? I’ve decided that “natural medicine” doesn’t hold much credence any more. I’m saying that if we can have a therapeutic benefit in an option to powerful medications, then let’s call a spade a bloody shovel!. A meeting of many of the modalities in Melbourne last weekend, attended by some…