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Qld Guild honours excellence
Friday | Oct 31 2025AT A Parliamentary Reception at Queensland Parliament House on Wed, the contribution of community pharmacists to the health and wellbeing of Queenslanders was recognised, and outstanding individuals within the profession celebrated.
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Bumper night as more Guild winners revealed
Thursday | Oct 30 2025STATE finalists of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia's National Pharmacy Awards were announced yesterday across Queensland, Victoria and South Australia.
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AdPha expands aged care support
Thursday | Oct 30 2025ADVANCED Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) has announced it is expanding its support for the aged care sector through a new partnership with leading Aged Care Onsite Pharmacist (ACOP) provider Choice Chemist.
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Editor’s Choice: Chemist Warehouse scores new Messi fragrance
Thursday | Oct 30 2025FOLLOWING the overwhelming success of his debut fragrance, globally renowned football superstar Leo Messi has launched a second fragrance, Messi Platinum Eau de Parfum.
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Reframing COVID: Know & Go
Thursday | Oct 30 2025A NEW report released this week - It Only Takes Five: Reframing COVID-19 for Australians - calls on pharmacists and other healthcare professionals to help patients recognise their risk of serious illness due to COVID, and to act early to prevent this.
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Peak bodies team up on prescriber submission
Wednesday | Oct 29 2025PHARMACY peak bodies have joined forces to recommend a model of pharmacist prescribing that prioritises patient access, safety and convenience while delivering potential savings of over $600 million annually.
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Critics lament Drug Summit’s missed opportunity
Wednesday | Oct 29 2025THE NSW Government has formally responded to the 2024 Drug Summit recommendations, saying it is building on its commitment to reform the state's whole-of-government approach to alcohol and other drug use, placing harm reduction and wellbeing at the forefront of policy.
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Guild welcomes expanded optometrist prescribing
Tuesday | Oct 28 2025A PROPOSAL by the Optometry Board of Australia to change prescribing rules for optometrists could see them prescribing oral medicines from an approved list to treat potentially sight-threatening eye conditions, bacterial eye infections, eye allergies and short-term eye pain.
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Could COVID vax fight cancer?
Tuesday | Oct 28 2025PATIENTS with advanced lung or skin cancer who received a COVID mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy drugs lived significantly longer than those who did not get the vaccine, according to US research published in Nature.
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Beware potential rental pitfalls
Tuesday | Oct 28 2025BUYER and tenant advocate Paul Rowe shares some potential pitfalls to watch out for when leasing.
