Headlines
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Aussie start-up nabs Sigma as client
Tuesday | Jan 7 2025SIGMA is the latest pharmacy group to join Locumate.ai, a Melbourne start-up specialising in pharmacy talent automation.
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Pfizer drug linked to tumours
Tuesday | Jan 7 2025PFIZER could face legal action in Australia after its popular contraceptive, Depo-Provera, was linked to brain tumours.
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One cig costs you 20 min
Tuesday | Jan 7 2025CIGARETTE smokers are being urged to heed new research out of the UK, which shows that every cigarette smoked, on average, can take around 20 minutes off their life expectancy.
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Free flu jabs for all Queenslanders in 2025
Monday | Jan 6 2025ALL Queenslanders over the age of six months will be able to get a free flu vaccination in 2025, from 01 Mar to 01 Sep.
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Johnson & Johnson sued
Monday | Jan 6 2025PHARMACEUTICAL giant Johnson & Johnson is facing a class action for allegedly selling "ineffective" cold and flu medicine to Australians (PD breaking news 20 Dec 2024).
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AMA calls for more STI action
Friday | Dec 20 2024THE Australian Medical Association (AMA) has welcomed the development of a national strategy on sexually transmissible infections, but says not enough is being done to tackle rising rates of sexually transmissible infections in vulnerable communities or to help eliminate congenital syphilis.
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Leading care of period pain
Friday | Dec 20 2024WITH new research finding that menstrual issues are often normalised or trivialised and undermanaged in young people, the study's lead author says pharmacists are ideally placed to advise on pain management.
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APP to feature Jeff Harrell
Thursday | Dec 19 2024JEFF Harrell, National President of the USA-based National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA), will be a featured speaker at the Australian Pharmacy Professional Conference and Trade Exhibition (APP2025).
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Advice for summer skin ills
Thursday | Dec 19 2024WITH the summer holidays just around the corner, community pharmacists are likely to see people coming in with sunburn, insect bites, rashes and acne flare-ups.
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Consumers’ support strong
Wednesday | Dec 18 2024THE Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) has released the Pharmacists in 2030: Strengthening consumer voices report, an addendum to the Pharmacists in 2030 vision released in August this year (PD 07 Aug).
