Breaking News
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Obesity up by nearly 50%
Tuesday | Mar 5 2024A SOBERING new obesity report by the nation's peak body titled A Time for Action found the number of Australians living with the disorder jumped from 3.9 million in 2012 to 6.3 million in 2022.
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$26m plus revenue lost in tranche one
Monday | Mar 4 2024KEY pharmacy software partner StrongRoom AI told Pharmacy Daily that it has estimated the revenue loss due to the implementation of tranche one of 60 Day Dispensing (60DD) to be at least $26,320,501.
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TWC wins top retail award
Monday | Mar 4 2024TERRYWHITE Chemmart has just been named the Customer Experience of the Year at the Retailer Awards for a second year.
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Tasmania makes UTI treatment easy
Monday | Mar 4 2024TASMANIAN women can now seek treatment for a suspected Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) at their local pharmacy (PD 12 Feb).
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PD breaking news – Second tranche of 60-Day Dispensing revealed
Friday | Mar 1 2024The saga of double dispensing continues as further medicines are listed today by the Department of.
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$50m to tackle dementia
Friday | Mar 1 2024venture capital-backed Brandon BioCatalyst's CUREator is set to deliver a BioMedTech Incubator (BMTI) to address dementia after recieving a $50 million grant from the Federal Government.
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ATAGI advice on booster
Friday | Mar 1 2024THE Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) advised the Government yesterday that adults 65 years and over, or those aged 18-64 who are severely immunocompromised, are eligible to receive a COVID-19 booster dose every six months.
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National RTPM stops drug misuse in NT
Thursday | Feb 29 2024A SERIOUS case of medication misuse in the Northern Territory was avoided earlier this month, thanks to the use of the national Real Time Prescription Monitoring (RTPM) system, NT Health told Pharmacy Daily.
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E-cigarette usage triples
Thursday | Feb 29 2024LESS than 10% of Australians are smoking cigarettes and tobacco daily, but the use of e-cigarettes has tripled between 2019 and 2022-2023, according to a new report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
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Influencer-led campaign
Wednesday | Feb 28 2024THE Federal Government is launching today a new influencer-led youth vaping campaign to spark a conversation with the next generation of Australians about the significant harms of vaping and nicotine addiction.