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Welcome to the May 2012 homepage edition of i2P-Information to Pharmacists. Rollo Manning has been having some time out having staples removed from the site of his open heart surgery.He is now at home recuperating in Darwin, having arrived home last Friday, beating a cold and hasty retreat from Canberra.We all wish him a speedy recovery and hopefully, he will be fit enough to contribute by next month.
This month, Pharmedia discusses the toll that is taken when someone complains about you to an authority without good cause. Well, the good news is that you can now take action to protect yourself if such a complaint is made, and that may even include action for defamation. Read about a recent case involving two doctors, with Mark Coleman drawing on personal experience to illustrate.

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Kidzcomics-empowering kids (and possibly their parents)

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Children affected by serious diseases and medical conditions either personally or in their families often don't really understand those illnesses or the treatments required to fight them. New Zealand-based Kidzcomics aims to change all that with a series of comic books designed to explain medical information for children.
The Medikidz series features five superheroes by the same name, each of them a specialist in a different part of the body. With stories designed to be fun and appealing, the comics aim to entertain as well as educate children about serious medical issues. Conditions covered in the Medikidz line so far include leukemia, epilepsy, diabetes, HIV and ADHD, among many others; rather than “sugar-coating” the topics, Kidzcomics' books aim to empower and educate children for better self-management and less fear. All content is written by professional medical writers and doctors and then peer-reviewed.
And while the comics attract children they also serve to educate parents who sneak the occasional look.

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Kidzcomics.com is an online Medical Comic Books Store, where you can buy medical comic books for children. You can explore graphic novels for kids from the Medikidz range that are aimed at explaining complex medical information for children. 

So far the medical comic books available to buy from the store deal with medical conditions including: Leukaemia, Breast Cancer, Swine Flu, ADHD, Childhood Overweight, Epilepsy, Type 1 Diabetes, HIV, Asthma, Osteosarcoma, Autism, Food Allergy, and Scoliosis.

Soon to be made available will be the new graphic novels explaining autism, depression, melanoma, brain tumours, growth hormone deficiency and organ transplants for children. The comics are developed by a team of medical experts and doctors writing specifically for children. The medical information in the comics is peer reviewed and approved before being made available for purchase.

Medikidz Ltd was created as a reliable medical reference for giving disease awareness for kids.
The comic books do not try to 'sugarcoat' serious medical conditions for children. Rather, the medical information provided is designed to empower and educate children with the awareness they need to take ownership of their medical condition by providing them with skills for self-management of various medical problems. The end result is that children can understand what is happening to them and why it is happening, taking away their fear of their medical diseases. The children’s medical comic books provide medical 'edu-tainment' for children, giving an interactive and engaging approach to serious medical information. Kidzcomics mission is to improve the quality of life for children through educating them, their parents and others via their medical comic books.

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