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Lipids hit Aust budget
Thursday | Nov 29 2018HIGH cholesterol levels placed an estimated $4 billion burden on the Australian economy in 2017-18, with more than one in three adult Australians, or 7.1 million people, estimated to be living with high cholesterol, according to a new Heart Foundation report.
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Federal MPs back Guild
Wednesday | Nov 28 2018POLITICIANS of all persuasions last night pledged their support for Australian community pharmacy at the Pharmacy Guild of Australia's annual Parliamentary Dinner.
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PBS key for health – Tambassis
Wednesday | Nov 28 2018PHARMACY Guild National President George Tambassis last night highlighted the key role of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, noting that the dispensing of PBS medicines in Australia was a "very effective public-private partnership".
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Union targets Chemist Warehouse
Wednesday | Nov 28 2018THE National Union of Workers yesterday slammed what it described as a "widespread culture of sexual harassment, bullying, and exploitation of labour hire casuals" at Chemist Warehouse distribution centres in Preston and Somerton in Victoria.
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Guild Parliamentary Dinner
Wednesday | Nov 28 2018SEVERAL hundred Australian pharmacy leaders gathered in the Great Hall of Australian Parliament House last night for the 2018 Pharmacy Guild of Australia annual Parliamentary Dinner.
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PSA peak funding
Wednesday | Nov 28 2018THE Pharmaceutical Society of Australia has been recognised as the country's national pharmacy peak body, with the Government yesterday confirming three years of funding under the Health Peak and Advisory Bodies Programme.
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Blackmore $10m gift
Wednesday | Nov 28 2018MARCUS Blackmore AM and his wife Caroline have made a record $10 million personal donation to Southern Cross University.
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Pharmacist-GP communication boost
Wednesday | Nov 28 2018A NEW data standard outlining the information that should be recorded about vaccines and emergency medicines supplied by community pharmacists has been published by England's NHS Digital, aiming to improve communications between pharmacists and GPs.
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More Mylan woes
Wednesday | Nov 28 2018MYLAN Pharmaceuticals in the USA is facing further issues after receiving a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration in relation to inadequate measures to prevent cross-contamination at one of its manufacturing facilities in West Virginia.
