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Editor’s Choice: the season’s ultra-light, sensitive skin sunscreens
Thursday | Nov 23 2023SunSense and Melanoma Institute Australia last week celebrated seven years in a partnership which has seen the Australian sunscreen brand donate more than $1.3m towards MIA's melanoma research and treatments (PD 20 Nov).
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FIP’s new AMR statement
Thursday | Nov 23 2023WITH World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week on, the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) today issued a new statement of policy on mitigating Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR).
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Guild pushing for a $19 co-payment
Wednesday | Nov 22 2023THE Pharmacy Guild of Australia says that new figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show Australians are going without prescription medication due to rising costs, reinforcing the need to reduce the maximum general co-payment for PBS-listed medicines to $19.
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Optus outage tests staff
Wednesday | Nov 22 2023PHARMACIES that don't rely on the Optus network may have weathered the recent outage, however, as one pharmacy has shown when its customers were affected by the outage, it still caused a major disruption to it.
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Aussies Fess up to having “sneez-iety”
Wednesday | Nov 22 2023RESEARCH commissioned by pharmacy brand Fess reveals Aussies experience 'sneez-iety' in public and behind closed doors.
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Amcal opens new compounding site
Tuesday | Nov 21 2023A NEW Amcal Bakers Compounding Pharmacy has opened in Toowoomba, Qld, on the site of an older pharmacy which served the local community for over 60 years, to address the severe shortage of compounding pharmacies.
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RACGP slams SA decision
Tuesday | Nov 21 2023THE Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has spoken out against expanded pharmacy prescribing powers in South Australia.
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On-point skin messaging
Tuesday | Nov 21 2023GLOBAL expert in sun protection, La Roche-Posay unveiled its new custom-built, mobile Skin Check Clinic at Bondi Beach this week, aiming to provide 1,000 complementary skin checks during National Skin Cancer Action Week (19-26 Nov), in collaboration with long-time partner Australian early skin cancer detection charity, Skin Check Champions.
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CPC24 to upskill practice
Monday | Nov 20 2023EARLY bird registrations are now open for next year's PSA's Credentialed Pharmacist Conference (CPC24) taking place in Cairns from 03 to 05 May.
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Ego gets under the skin on sunscreens
Monday | Nov 20 2023SUNSENSE partnered with Chemist Warehouse to celebrate the launch of two new sunscreens just in time for summer, and to shine a light on SunSense's partnership with Melanoma Institute Australia (MIA).
