News
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UK pharmacy gender pay gap
Tuesday | Apr 10 2018A report from British pharmacy giant Lloydspharmacy has revealed that its female employees earn more than 30% less than males on average - but the "median" or mid-point pay gap is more like 3%.
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Dentist ban for drug abuse
Tuesday | Apr 10 2018A NSW dentist has been found guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct and deregistered for a period of two years in a case brought by the Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) before the Civil and Administrative Tribunal of New South Wales.
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EMA consults on antibiotics
Tuesday | Apr 10 2018THE European Medicines Agency has announced a public hearing into quinolone and fluoroquinolone antibiotics, giving a "voice to patients, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, researchers and everyone else" who wants to share their experience with using the medications.
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‘Vegetal Vigra’ alert
Tuesday | Apr 10 2018THE Therapeutic Goods Administration has issued a safety warning about a product called "Vegetal Vigra" capsules, saying they pose a serious risk to health.
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Naturopathy self-slam
Tuesday | Apr 10 2018FORMER naturopathic doctor Britt Maria Hermes, a graduate of America's Bastyr University, has called herself out as a "quack" on her own blogs, reports Jane McCredie in the latest MJA.
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Asthma Rx webinar
Tuesday | Apr 10 2018IN A project jointly funded by asthma medication companies AstraZeneca and Novartis, NPS MedicineWise will host a webinar 'Difficult-to-treat and severe asthma: changing the paradigm' on World Asthma Day, 01 May.
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Clinical pharmacist interventions
Tuesday | Apr 10 2018ABOUT 1,826 electronic prescriptions for 549 women in the high-risk obstetrics inpatient unit of a Women's Hospital in Brazil were the subject of a study which demonstrated that clinical pharmacist interventions were needed to identify potential prescribing errors.
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Free flu vax for Tasmanian children
Tuesday | Apr 10 2018TASMANIAN Health Minister Michael Ferguson this week announced that children in the state aged between six months and five years will be eligible for a free influenza vaccination this season.
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FDA restricts Essure
Tuesday | Apr 10 2018THE US Food and Drug Administration has restricted the sale and distribution of Bayer's Essure implantable contraception device, after finding some women were not being adequately informed of the known risks associated with the product - more details at fda.gov.
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Vax can cause the flu?
Tuesday | Apr 10 2018IN SPITE of the persistent rumour that having the influenza vaccine can cause one to catch the virus, the science says this is physically impossible, with all vaccines licenced in Australia being inactivated.
