Editorial
Welcome to the June homepage edition for i2P (Information to Pharmacists) E-Magazine.
The editor’s desk has been vacant for nearly a month to enable a short vacation to happen, and gratefully it has stirred some sort of a revival.
The volume of work unpublished over May will be reorganised and will appear gradually over future editions.
Since resuming “the desk” the pressure has recommenced, but that is part of the job.
This month we have featured Gerald Quigley as he illustrates an evidence-based complementary medicine that helps Alzheimer patients. The product is already helping patients but is being criticised because of a perceived lack of “quality” in its evidence profile.
Mark Coleman has jumped in to point out the lack of quality in mainstream evidence for drugs, and I find it quite appalling that a serial complainer can justify any mainstream evidence as being “gold standard”.
Read Mark’s article under the title of “Research and other Medical Wonders”.
Columns
Dr John Dunlop (PGDipPharm, MPharm, DPharm(Auck), FACPP, FNZCP, FPSNZ, MCAPA): Inside NZ
Loretta Marron BSc: Health Watch
Barry Urquhart: Marketing Focus
Harvey Mackay: Strategic Thinking
Mark Neuenschwander: I`ve been thinking about...Recent Comments
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Hospital News
Staff Writer: Respected pharmacy managers resign over their concerns for patient safety | open full screen
Health Politics
Mark Coleman: Research and Other Medical Wonders
Neil Johnston: The Call For Unity
Gerald Quigley: What about the Alzheimer’s patient?
Professional Pharmacists Australia Spokesperson: Australian Pharmacists Welcome Removal of the Profession from Skilled Occupation Lists | open full screen
Professional Pharmacists Australia Spokesperson: Australian Pharmacists Say Small Increase In Pay Not Enough | open full screen
Climate Change
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Heatwave: the challenges of climate change in aged-care facilities
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A University of Sydney researcher will develop life-saving recommendations for aged-care patients during her innovative research project into heatwave responses, which was recently awarded a Climate Change Adaptation Research Grant.
Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Greg Combet, recently announced the recipients of the $2.6 million in grants for priority research into the social, economic and institutional impacts of climate change across Australia.
Lead researcher, Professor Deborah Black, from the Ageing, Work and Health Unit in the Faculty of Health Sciences, says the study will focus on ways aged-care facilities and their staff can adapt to the increasing likelihood of heatwave events, thus minimising the likelihood of heat-related illness, or death on elderly residents.
The study will be funded over two years and aims to enrol as many aged-care facilities across three states as possible.
"Figures from VicHealth show that an additional 374 Victorians died during the Black Saturday heat-wave of 2009, many of them elderly, yet little is known about the climate-change adaptive capacity of aged-care facilities, and the perceptions of aged-care staff about climate change," says Professor Black.
"There is clear evidence to show that Australia's daily temperatures, and ageing population are both increasing.
"Along with the challenges of climate change, come those associated with keeping the elderly well during periods of extreme heat.
"The elderly have decreased heat tolerance and experience changes in thermoregulatory responses. Although much research has been conducted overseas in countries where heatwaves are a rare event, less has been done in Australia, particularly in elderly populations."
The project will investigate the capacity of aged-care facilities to adapt to increasing periods of extreme heat. It will examine policies, procedures, knowledge and environmental factors such as building design and cooling equipment used in aged-care facilities in three Australian states and recommend ways they can adapt to prevent premature death from extreme heat in elderly residents.
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Practice Development
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Neil Retallick: The pharmacy landscape is changing according to Mark Hooper – and Bob Dylan | open full screen
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Information Technology
Dr David More: Weekly Overseas Health IT Links to 1st June, 2013.Preventive Medicine
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