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Adverse events increase
Friday | Sep 28 2018THE total number of medicine and vaccine adverse event reports to the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) rose by 1,882 from 2016-17, representing a 9.5% increase, according to the agency's annual performance report.
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New Priceline direction
Friday | Sep 28 2018PRICELINE Pharmacy has unveiled its new brand proposition with a television commercial recently launching to declare to Australians "There's no place like Priceline".
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Life Pharmacy drives the green
Friday | Sep 28 2018LIFE Pharmacy Group celebrated 60 years of trading when it held its annual managers conference in Forbes NSW where the founding pharmacy in the group, Flannery's Pharmacy, originally commenced.
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OTC sildenafil pharmacy fail
Thursday | Sep 27 2018AUTHORITIES in New Zealand have highlighted a high proportion of pharmacists inappropriately supplying erectile dysfunction medication sildenafil.
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Researchers challenge TGA
Thursday | Sep 27 2018RESEARCHERS from Monash University and Friends of Science in Medicine (FSM) have argued that the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) "has failed, and will continue to fail, in its duty to protect Australians from ineffective health products".
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DDS leads satisfaction poll
Wednesday | Sep 26 2018DISCOUNT Drug Stores (DDS) has once again taken out the top honours in the monthly Customer Satisfaction Awards conducted by Roy Morgan Research, with the Sigma Healthcare brand winning the survey in Aug 2018 for the fourth month running.
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#yourmedicineexperts
Wednesday | Sep 26 2018SOME members of the Australian pharmacy sector celebrated World Pharmacists Day yesterday with a social media initiative seeing them post images of their pharmacist teams with the hashtag #yourmedicineexperts.
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Pharmacists celebrated
Tuesday | Sep 25 2018TODAY marks World Pharmacists Day, with the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) highlighting a parliamentary tribute to the profession last week by Member for Dobell and pharmacist Emma McBride.
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National Pharmacies hails suppliers
Tuesday | Sep 25 2018SOUTH Australia-based National Pharmacies has honoured its top suppliers for 2018 in a ceremony at Adelaide Oval last Thu 20 Sep.
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Pharmacists can support GPs
Tuesday | Sep 25 2018ALLOWING pharmacists to operate "to the full extent of their training and abilities" would help ease the growing pressure on general practitioners "facing a mental health epidemic," said the Pharmacy Guild of Australia Queensland Branch yesterday.