Headlines
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Community pharmacy tick
Thursday | Feb 22 2018THE Australian "tried and trusted community pharmacy model" received a shot in the arm with the passage through Federal Parliament last week of amendments that removed the sunset clause on the Pharmacy Location Rules (PD 14 Feb), Pharmacy Guild of Australia executive director David Quilty writes.
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CW nets major partnership
Wednesday | Feb 21 2018AUSTRALIAN pharmacy discount retail group Chemist Warehouse has again linked with Beach Netball ("It's netball, but not as you know it") as a major partner and is gearing up to support the upcoming 2018 series across the country.
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EBOS H1 earnings up 15.6%
Wednesday | Feb 21 2018ASX-LISTED marketer, wholesaler and distributor of healthcare, medical and pharmaceutical products EBOS, has announced a record interim unaudited net profit of $76.7m for the six months to 31 Dec 2017, with EBITDA up 15.6% and net profit after tax up 11.5%.
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Gabapentinoid abuse up
Wednesday | Feb 21 2018THE US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is actively looking into the potential misuse and abuse of gabapentinoids, a class of drugs that includes Pfizer's Neurontin (gabapentin) and Lyrica (pregabalin), which have been approved to treat a number of conditions such as postherpetic neuralgia, fibromyalgia and neuropathic pain.
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TGA CM advertising debate
Tuesday | Feb 20 2018BOTH science and civil society organisations have continued to raise a storm over the passage through parliament the 2017 Measures No.1 Bill, according to an MJA Insight article.
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Pharmacy training offers
Tuesday | Feb 20 2018THE Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) has announced it has resumed training for community pharmacy qualifications across Australia for pharmacy staff, including dispensary and pharmacy assistants.
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‘Pharmacy first’ says NHS
Monday | Feb 19 2018PARENTS of young children with minor illnesses should take them to pharmacies rather than GPs or an A&E, a new NHS England campaign says, reports the BBC.
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Med cannabis challenges
Monday | Feb 19 2018WITH society's growing demand for access to medicinal cannabis, physicians and regulators are facing "significant challenges" keeping pace, according to Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) authors writing in the MJA.
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Pulling back the PBS veil
Friday | Feb 16 2018ACKNOWLEDGING that many Australians are unaware of the processes involved in bringing new medicines to Australia, Pharmaceutical research giant GSK and ViiV have joined to create a new report intended to "pull back the curtain" on the PBS.
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Pharmacy tobacco sales?
Friday | Feb 16 2018DRAMATICALLY changing the retail distribution of tobacco products so they become available exclusively in pharmacies, is a strategy explored by University of Otago, New Zealand researchers.