News
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Dispensary Corner
Monday | Apr 9 2018
09 Apr 18LIFESAVING techniques picked up from US TV show The Office have been cited by a college student who managed to resuscitate a drowning squirrel.
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MedAdvisor flies high
Monday | Apr 9 2018AUSTRALIAN-LISTED medication management software company MedAdvisor has announced via the ASX that it has reached the key milestone of one million connected patients with 3.1 million prescriptions having been filled through its MedAdvisor app Tap-To-Refill function, representing $250m in pharmacy sales.
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Events Calendar
Friday | Apr 6 2018
06 April 1828-29 Apr: Victorian Pharmacy Conference 2018; Parkville, Victoria; find out more here: www.psa.org.au 3-6 May: APP.
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PSA18 to focus on future
Friday | Apr 6 2018THE Pharmaceutical Society of Australia this morning unveiled details of its upcoming PSA18 flagship conference, set to take place 27-29 Jun at Sydney's Hyatt Regency Hotel.
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Drive-through pharmacy for ACT
Friday | Apr 6 2018DISCOUNT Drug Stores is set to open the first drive-through pharmacy in the ACT, with the Gold Creek DDS to launch the new facility on 14 Apr.
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Resistant red bags
Friday | Apr 6 2018AS PART of the 'Seriously Resistant' campaign led by England's NHS Leeds and Leeds City Council, pharmacies across the county will dispense medicine in red bags with a message to patients to complete their course of antibiotics "even if they start to feel better".
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AHPRA offline
Friday | Apr 6 2018THE website of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) will be inaccessible tomorrow, with scheduled maintenance seeing it taken offline between 7am and 4pm AEST.
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Flu vax recording
Friday | Apr 6 2018THE Department of Health has reminded pharmacists and other health practitioners that flu vaccinations can be recorded on the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR).
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Neratinib access
Friday | Apr 6 2018SPECIALISED Therapeutics Asia has launched an early access program for Australian patients to receive neratinib, an extended adjuvant treatment for early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer.