Archive for 'drug Information'
Cold Chain II
Maintaining the cold chain is difficult out bush. I wrote in August about the high temperatures reached in the planes transporting our pharmaceuticals. Power failures are regular in many remote communities and can lead to failure of the cold chain rendering the vaccines and other refrigerated items unusable. Over time I have built up a [...]
Posted: January 5th, 2009 under Remote health, drug Information.
Tags: cold chain, data loggers, health, immunisation, logistics, pharmacy, refrigerator, remote, vaccine
Comments: 2
Design Your Own Drug
New Year’s Day. I am sure there are more immediate needs you need the “Design Your own Drug” for.
Click on the pic and start designing.
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Posted: January 1st, 2009 under drug Information.
Tags: drug, humour, information
Comments: 1
How to Achieve Positive Results
A new niche company has been formed: HARLOT, specialising in How to Achieve positive Results without actually Lying to Overcome the Truth.
I am sure their services will be much in demand, particularly by the pharmaceutical industry. (Click on the picture to down load the small file.)
This bulletin is produced by the Repatriation General Hospital [...]
Posted: December 26th, 2008 under drug Information.
Tags: drug, humour, information, RGH
Comments: none
Indigenous Health Research and the Polypill
Way back in 2003 there was a very contentious article published in the BMJ, “A strategy to reduce cardiovascular disease by more than 80%” along with an editorial “A cure for cardiovascular disease?” The proposed polypill had six ingredients and the editorial claimed that the “combination treatment has enormous potential, especially in developing countries.” It [...]
Posted: December 18th, 2008 under Indigenous, Remote health, S100, drug Information.
Tags: aboriginal, health, Indigenous, kanyini, Ngaanyatjarra, polypill, remote
Comments: 2