Headlines
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TWC seals asthma pact
Tuesday | Jan 30 2018ASTHMA Australia and TerryWhite Chemmart (TWC) have entered a three-year partnership to support people with asthma.
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New chronic pain program
Monday | Jan 29 2018THE Government's new $20m Pain MedsCheck program (PD breaking news Fri) will see pharmacists "build relationships with GPs and other health professionals who support patients with chronic pain," according to Health Minister Greg Hunt who announced the move with Guild president George Tambassis at his Vermont South Amcal Pharmacy.
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Dermal Therapy driveaway
Monday | Jan 29 2018LAST year, Amanda Donovan purchased a Dermal Therapy Foot Care product from Ramsay Pharmacy, Bondi, little knowing it would lead to her driving away in a brand new VW Polo.
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Guild leader blasts CMO
Thursday | Jan 25 2018DAVID Heffernan, president of the NSW branch of the Pharmacy Guild, has called on Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy to resign if he does not correct statements claiming OTC codeine causes 100 deaths per year in Australia.
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Pharmacy windfall for govt
Thursday | Jan 25 2018THE Health Department's latest PBS Expenditure and Prescriptions Report shows that pharmacy remuneration in 2016-17 was $2.42 billion, nearly $400m less than the Department estimated at the time of the signing of the Sixth Community Pharmacy Agreement (6CPA) in May 2015, according to Pharmacy Guild of Australia executive director David Quilty.
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Biologics and barcodes
Thursday | Jan 25 2018THE Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has published 34 submissions to its 'Nomenclature of biological medicines' consultation.
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‘Consumers are winners’
Wednesday | Jan 24 2018THE Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) has touted consumers as "winners" from the Therapeutic Goods Administration's (TGA's) proposed advertising reform (PD 19 Jan) and new approach to increasing availability of pharmacist-only medicines.
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CMA blasts ‘fringe’ groups
Tuesday | Jan 23 2018COMPLEMENTARY Medicines Australia (CMA) has criticised Friends of Science in Medicine and health activist Ken Harvey, (PD yesterday)describing him as "disingenuous" on the subject of advertising pre-approvals.
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Dose Innovations administration
Tuesday | Jan 23 2018EXTERNAL administrators have been appointed to Brisbane-based Dose Innovations Pty Ltd, which distributes the Rowa Automated Dispensary system endorsed by the Pharmacy Guild's Gold Cross Products & Services in 2015.
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API warns of slow sales
Monday | Jan 22 2018AUSTRALIAN Pharmaceutical Industries this morning alerted investors that its half year result would be down about 9% on the previous corresponding period, with "suppressed retail conditions" persisting until late in the key Christmas trading period.