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Guild welcomes expanded optometrist prescribing
Tuesday | Oct 28 2025A PROPOSAL by the Optometry Board of Australia to change prescribing rules for optometrists could see them prescribing oral medicines from an approved list to treat potentially sight-threatening eye conditions, bacterial eye infections, eye allergies and short-term eye pain.
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Could COVID vax fight cancer?
Tuesday | Oct 28 2025PATIENTS with advanced lung or skin cancer who received a COVID mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy drugs lived significantly longer than those who did not get the vaccine, according to US research published in Nature.
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Beware potential rental pitfalls
Tuesday | Oct 28 2025BUYER and tenant advocate Paul Rowe shares some potential pitfalls to watch out for when leasing.
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Mini-mise pain
Tuesday | Oct 28 2025MEDICHOICE'S new Ibuprofen Mini liquid capsules provide rapid pain relief in an easy-to-swallow format.
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Want a role in medicine decisions?
Tuesday | Oct 28 2025THE Department of Health, Disability and Ageing is seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced individuals - including pharmacists and pharmacologists - who would like to be considered for upcoming member vacancies on national health technology assessment (HTA) committees and sub-committees.
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Back the bid
Tuesday | Oct 28 2025GLUCOJEL has teamed up with Netball Australia in its bid for the game's inclusion at the Brisbane 2032 Olympics.
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CKD PBS expansion for Jardiance
Tuesday | Oct 28 2025FROM 01 Nov, Jardiance (empagliflozin 10mg) will be listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) for the treatment of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in adults at moderate-to-severe risk of their condition worsening.
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CSL hammered by low US vax rates
Tuesday | Oct 28 2025AT ITS AGM this morning, CSL announced it has downgraded its full-year profit and revenue outlook following lower-than-expected vaccination rates in the US and government cost-containment measures in China, which have reduced demand for albumin.
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Dispensary Corner 28 Oct 25
Tuesday | Oct 28 2025SCIENTISTS have figured out why coffee beans harvested from the faeces of Asian palm civets taste so good (according to coffee connoisseurs, at least).
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PBS boost for women’s health
Monday | Oct 27 2025HEALTH Minister Mark Butler announced this morning that Organon's NuvaRing (etonogestrel with ethinylestradiol contraceptive) vaginal ring three-pack will be listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) from 01 Nov 2025, providing an additional affordable contraceptive option for Australian women.
