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Aspirin overuse
Tuesday | Sep 18 2018THREE groundbreaking papers published in the New England Journal of Medicine, from a team of Monash University researchers in Melbourne, reveal the results from a seven-year study of the benefits and risks of a low daily dose of aspirin to the lives of people aged more than 70 years.
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US opioid use up
Tuesday | Sep 18 2018AS MANY as six million people in the US are experiencing opioid use disorder, nearly three times higher than the government's estimate of 2.1 million, global management consulting firm McKinsey and Co.
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Ig Nobel awards
Tuesday | Sep 18 2018A Japanese researcher has taken out the 2018 Ig Nobel prize for medical education, for a paper in which he demonstrated that self-colonoscopy in a sitting position without sedation is possible.
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Antibiotics vs self-care
Tuesday | Sep 18 2018PHARMACISTS have a critical role in antimicrobial stewardship and helping avoid the current forecast of 10 million deaths per year as a result of antimicrobial resistance, according to Wales' Bangor University research fellow Martin Duerden.
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ASMI ad seminars
Tuesday | Sep 18 2018THE Australian Self-Medication Industry is hosting Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code Seminars in Sydney and Melbourne in Oct.
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Expand phcy vaccines
Tuesday | Sep 18 2018POLICY makers in the US are being urged by research academics to consider expanding pharmacy practice laws to allow pharmacists to vaccinate adolescents as a way to improve geographic access to adolescent vaccines, particularly for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which has low uptake.
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TGA ticks Hizentra
Tuesday | Sep 18 2018CSL Limited has welcomed the Therapeutic Goods Administration approval of its Hizentra [normal immunoglobulin (human) 20% subcutaneous injection] for the treatment of patients with Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP).
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Viagra stockpile
Tuesday | Sep 18 2018ONE of the UK's largest online pharmacies has confirmed it will stockpile up to 1 million Viagra tablets in preparation for a "no-deal" Brexit.
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On faecal transplants
Tuesday | Sep 18 2018THE Therapeutic Goods Administration is conducting a stakeholder forum on issues around collection, manufacture and supply of material used in faecal microbiota transplantation.
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Dispensary Corner
Tuesday | Sep 18 2018
18 Sep 18NEW research from the University of Regina in the USA suggests that one way to rehabilitate chronic alcoholics might be to shout them a couple of cans of beer.
