News
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Low BC awareness
Monday | Feb 26 2018A NEW report published in Public Health Research & Practice has revealed dangerously low levels of awareness about bowel cancer (BC) risk factors and screening recommendations among Australians aged 18-85 years.
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Champix cardiac link
Monday | Feb 26 2018NEW research published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine has confirmed an association, not necessarily causative, between the use of Chantix (in Australia Champix, generic name varenicline) and cardiac events.
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Pharmacy’s future
Monday | Feb 26 2018ALL APP Conference 2018 attendees are being invited to participate in a research study to uncover trends, discover emerging opportunities and predict some of the challenges facing the pharmacy profession in coming years.
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Pharmacy chronic pain
Monday | Feb 26 2018DESPITE protestations by pharmacists that they have not been responsible for the price hikes of products containing codeine (PD Friday), Chronic Pain Australia national president Dr Coralie Wales has said the organisation "is disappointed about recent reports of pharmacies across Australia increasing the price of codeine-based medications since the 01 Feb up-scheduling".
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APC consultant call
Monday | Feb 26 2018THE Australian Pharmacy Council (APC) is calling for applications from suitably qualified candidates to "provide an external lens over the business of the FARM Committee, a standing committee of the Council".
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FDA beats EMA
Monday | Feb 26 2018FROM 2007 to 2016, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved more new drugs and biologics first than its European and Swiss regulatory counterparts, according to a comparison in the European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology - CLICK HERE.
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Cannabis claims challenge
Monday | Feb 26 2018CLAIMS that medical cannabis use has reduced opioid overdose deaths in the United States (PD Friday) have been challenged by a University of Queensland (UQ) drug abuse expert.
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Beauty Prescription bash
Monday | Feb 26 2018PRICELINE Pharmacy transformed Sydney's Randwick Racecourse into a spectacular health and beauty playground last week at its annual 'Beauty Prescription' signature event where around 200 guests gained insights into the latest trends in new products.
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Dispensary Corner 23 Feb 18
Friday | Feb 23 2018DEDICATION to the task, what every company owner and manager dreams of in staff, was demonstrated to the nth degree when a US morning radio show presenter gave birth on air during her show.
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J&J choice employer
Friday | Feb 23 2018THE Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies in Australia has announced that it has been granted the Employer of Choice for Gender Equality citation in 2017-18 by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), for the first time.
