diego_luego

have a scientific background, and work across the intersection of IT and health. I am old enough to have lived through several cycles of Liberal/Labor. The older I get the more disenchanted I become with right of centre ideology. Although my life is very comfortable, I dislike the way that our society has been polarised with the rich being richer and the poor poorer. I hate the way we have been taken into too many unnecessary wars. I particularly hate the way that the profit motive can be used to justify all sorts of evil, such as selling dirty coal or ripping down old growth forests.

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Don't soldier on with Codral Cold Tablets

Do No Evil – We are currently being bombarded with television adverts encouraging us to take Codral Cold Tablets so that we can go to work despite suffering from coughs, colds and even influenza. By soldiering on you are being brave and conquering adversity, and that Codral Cold Tablets will help win the war. In fact, you are being stupid and anti-social.

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Submitted and Voted for on June 12, 2008 11:55pm

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NUTRACEUTICALS sitting on the fence between food and drugs

Do No Evil – Nutraceuticals are foodstuffs purporting to have health or medical benefits in addition to their normal nutritional value. They are often considered to be a subset of "functional foods" along with "medical foods" and good old fashioned "health foods", but the distinctions are blurry.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 28, 2008 02:16am

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HOMEOPATHY for dummies

Do No Evil – Homeopathy has a long history. It was invented in the late 1700s by German physician Samuel Hahnemann. He based it on treating "like with like", his theory being that a condition can be cured by a substance that produces the same signs and symptoms in a healthy person.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 26, 2008 12:35am

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COSMECEUTICALS where white lies earn big money

Do No Evil – About ten years ago the word "cosmeceutical" was popularised. The intention was to give cosmetics the scientific respectability of pharmaceuticals by using a semantic trick. Cosmeceuticals are cosmetics that the manufacturers claim have drug-like benefits.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 26, 2008 12:33am

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SATIVEX the CANNABIS SPRAY one step closer in Australia

Do No Evil – The good news is that the NSW Minister FOR Health, Reba Meagher, has applied to her Federal counterpart Nicola Roxon for permission to import and trial a cannabis based drug, presumably Sativex.

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CANNABIS SPRAY Sativex is coming slowly to a country near you

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BRITISH MEDICINE is heading for a new Dark Age

Do No Evil – The heir to the throne His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales (appropriately and correctly written in Latin as "Princeps Wallie") is clearly not a man of the Enlightenment otherwise he would know there is no such thing as alternative medicine, there is only proven medicine or unproven medicine.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 18, 2008 07:33pm

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CRYSTAL HEALING for fun and profit

Do No Evil – There is absolutely no evidence that: 1. We have an aura or energy fields apart from the four fundamental and measurable forces of physics 2. If we do have energy fields that they can get out of balance 3. Crystals can rebalance these theoretical energy fields

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Submitted and Voted for on May 11, 2008 11:34pm

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Another thumbs down for GLUCOSAMINE

Do No Evil – The ACA researchers examined all the studies on glucosamine published before January 2005 and found that almost all showed that glucosamine was ineffective. Interestingly, the studies with positive findings were all sponsored by an Italian pharmaceutical company.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 11, 2008 11:33pm

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How cough and cold remedies work - an heretical view

Do-It-Yourself – Most pharmacists and doctors do not really believe that cold remedies work. Their only function is to make you think that you can do something. The cold will last from ten days to three weeks with or without treatment.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 08, 2008 07:15pm

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SEXY EYELASHES a risky proposition

Do No Evil – The purveyors of undeclared prescription items have been at it again. This time a product touted for making eyelashes sexier has been shown to contain some prostoglandins used for treating a serious eye condition.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 06, 2008 09:31pm

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ROSS RIVER FEVER and sulfasalazine

Do No Evil – The article indicates that the arthropathy associated with this virus can be treated using the relatively inexpensive drug sulfasalazine, marketed in Australia under the brand names Salazopyrin and Pyralen EN.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 05, 2008 08:40pm

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ENOXAPARIN the latest victim of the heparin debacle

Do No Evil – The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration has just (22 April 2008) announced that five batches of enoxaparin, marketed as Clexane by Synthelabo, have failed the testing for the contaminant oversulphated chondroitin sulphate (OSCS). These batches have been recalled immediately.

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Submitted and Voted for on April 22, 2008 10:11pm

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Should all products containing codeine be prescription only?

Do No Evil – Pressure has been put on the Australian National Drugs and Poisons Scheduling Committee to consider rescheduling all codeine containing compound analgesics to Prescription Only Medicines

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Submitted and Voted for on April 14, 2008 08:40pm

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Heparin recall - why was the TGA not pro-active?

Do No Evil – The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has just (20/03/2008) announced a safety warning on a heparinised saline. The pharmaceutical manufacturer Astra-Zeneca will ask the TGA for permission to recall all stocks of this drug. It is not yet certain if other heparin products, or even the low molecular weight heparins are involved.

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Submitted and Voted for on March 25, 2008 08:29pm

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NATIONAL REGISTER for all Australian health care professionals

Do No Evil – The new Australian Minister for Health, Nicola Roxon is keen to develop a centralised national register for doctors and other health care professionals such as dentists, nurses and pharmacists.

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Submitted and Voted for on March 24, 2008 09:47pm