How many thousand vaccinators are needed to vaccinate 10m people? (more…)
August 21, 2009
August 7, 2009
Hinted at national identification scheme
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August 5, 2009
DT104 outbreak
Food Poison Journal More antibiotic-resistant Salmonella cases reported in Colorado ……. H.R. 1549 – Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009 proposes the restriction of antibiotic use in feed animals to therapeutic purposes only
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August 4, 2009
Entertaining
Ang San Sushi Tue 04 Aug 09 (12:47pm)
How about threatening with a knife? “Just kidding, Your Worship”?
Oh, Mark! If a drunk is being loud and annoying in a public bar, but passes off his behaviour as “entertaining”, he may be asked to button up with high expectation of a meaningful result. (more…)
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August 2, 2009
A Medicare number is not unique.
Why not use the Medicare number?
A Medicare number is not unique. Some individuals are members of more than one family and may be on multiple cards with multiple numbers. Also, not everyone who needs healthcare will have a Medicare number.
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Food
SD Sweet, Salty, Sour, Bitter And Umami: Variants Of ‘Umami’ Taste Receptor Contribute To Our Individualized Flavor Worlds
Oz Food labelling decision shelved (more…)
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July 24, 2009
Healthcare identifiers and privacy legislative proposals
Call for submissions: Healthcare identifiers and privacy legislative proposals (more…)
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July 16, 2009
Maternal deprivation in rats, cannabis, opioids
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July 11, 2009
Clancy Martin, LRB
Diary, his alcoholism, baclofen, clonazepam, lorazepam, lamotrigine.
On this account, alcohol is like Xanax: Xanax perfected through millennia of human effort and experimentation, and therefore with lots of benefits that Xanax doesn’t have, but also several menacing side-effects that it doesn’t.
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July 10, 2009
June 30th, training session, Turning Point
A two-hour symposium* presented by Mal Doreian, speakers Suzi Nielsen and Matt Frei, on prescription medication use/abuse by users of illicit drugs. (more…)
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July 8, 2009
Are the homeless mentally ill?
Paper [.doc] 😦 by Guy Johnson and Chris Chamberlain
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July 1, 2009
The new face of drug addiction
In Medical Observer (trevork) July 3 2009
An added problem is the fact that, as Dr Nielsen says, pharmacists are unable to check whether a patient is a doctor shopper when dispensing prescriptions and the program only tracks PBS-listed medications.
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June 14, 2009
Warning: Alprazolam (Xanax, Kalma, Zamhexsal)
(From June Bulletin MPBVic) This item has been prepared by the Department of Human Services.
Recent evidence suggests that alprazolam is more subject to non-medical use, and causes a disproportionally higher level of serious harm, than other benzodiazepines. (more…)
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