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Editor’s Choice: Swipe on-the-go to put a sparkle on teeth
Thursday | Oct 19 2023AUSTRALIAN oral care brand, White Glo, has developed an on-the-go teeth whitening range that aims to deliver conveniently fast and easy results.
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Register for NMS now
Thursday | Oct 19 2023PHARMACISTS and other industry stakeholders are being invited to register for the National Medicines Symposium (NMS) 2023, which is for the first time being hosted by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare (ACSQH) (PD 05 Jul).
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Guild’s energy relief deal
Wednesday | Oct 18 2023THE Pharmacy Guild of Australia (NSW Branch) has announced, an industry-first electricity deal exclusively for Guild member pharmacies in both New South Wales and the ACT, starting on 01 Jan 2024.
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Nicotine-infused tea sticks
Wednesday | Oct 18 2023BIG Tobacco firms, including British American Tobacco, are selling heat sticks made from nicotine-infused substances such as rooibos tea (pictured), countering an incoming EU ban on flavoured heated tobacco products.
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60DD letter to doctors
Tuesday | Oct 17 2023THE Community and Pharmacy Support Group (CAPS) has written to general practitioners, asking them to be "mindful" when prescribing 60-day prescriptions "unless it is in the patient's financial best interests and meets the clinical guidelines to do so".
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PSA to help identify individual scope
Tuesday | Oct 17 2023THE Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) last week officially launched the Professional Practice Standards Quality Improvement and Self-Assessment Implementation Program to help community pharmacists better understand and implement the standards into their practice.
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EZZ expands reach to CW
Tuesday | Oct 17 2023ASX-LISTED genomics company EZZ Life Science Holdings has launched 10 of its most popular products into the Chemist Warehouse online marketplace.
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Pharmacists praised in Sunshine State
Monday | Oct 16 2023THE Qld Govt and the Opposition jointly recognised the valuable contribution community pharmacists make across the state, at the Pharmacy Guild's fifth annual Parliamentary Reception held in the state's Parliament House last week.
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High AMR in wastewater
Monday | Oct 16 2023ANALYSING wastewater samples from several aged care and retirement homes in Adelaide, has uncovered worrying signs of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in at least one facility, a University of South Australia study has found.
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Child’s play to fix doses
Monday | Oct 16 2023PHARMACISTS and engineers in the US have developed a 3D printing process capable of producing the exact dose of medication needed by a child, Pharmacy Practice News has reported this week.
