Headlines
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Non-addictive analgesia
Thursday | Feb 1 2018THE University of Queensland (UQ) has announced an agreement with Canadian biomedical company PreveCeutical Medical Inc.
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$1.58 billion Sirtex takeover
Wednesday | Jan 31 2018ASX listed liver cancer biotechnology specialist Sirtex Medical is set to be acquired by Varian Medical Systems with an all-cash offer priced at $28 per share.
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Codeine – NSW ‘go-it-alone’?
Tuesday | Jan 30 2018A combination of real-time monitoring and New South Wales ministerial regulation could see the state "go it alone" on allowing pharmacists to supply codeine-containing products under specific conditions, according to Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) NSW Branch president University of Sydney Honorary Professor Peter Carroll.
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TWC seals asthma pact
Tuesday | Jan 30 2018ASTHMA Australia and TerryWhite Chemmart (TWC) have entered a three-year partnership to support people with asthma.
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New chronic pain program
Monday | Jan 29 2018THE Government's new $20m Pain MedsCheck program (PD breaking news Fri) will see pharmacists "build relationships with GPs and other health professionals who support patients with chronic pain," according to Health Minister Greg Hunt who announced the move with Guild president George Tambassis at his Vermont South Amcal Pharmacy.
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Dermal Therapy driveaway
Monday | Jan 29 2018LAST year, Amanda Donovan purchased a Dermal Therapy Foot Care product from Ramsay Pharmacy, Bondi, little knowing it would lead to her driving away in a brand new VW Polo.
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Guild leader blasts CMO
Thursday | Jan 25 2018DAVID Heffernan, president of the NSW branch of the Pharmacy Guild, has called on Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy to resign if he does not correct statements claiming OTC codeine causes 100 deaths per year in Australia.
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Pharmacy windfall for govt
Thursday | Jan 25 2018THE Health Department's latest PBS Expenditure and Prescriptions Report shows that pharmacy remuneration in 2016-17 was $2.42 billion, nearly $400m less than the Department estimated at the time of the signing of the Sixth Community Pharmacy Agreement (6CPA) in May 2015, according to Pharmacy Guild of Australia executive director David Quilty.
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Biologics and barcodes
Thursday | Jan 25 2018THE Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has published 34 submissions to its 'Nomenclature of biological medicines' consultation.
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‘Consumers are winners’
Wednesday | Jan 24 2018THE Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) has touted consumers as "winners" from the Therapeutic Goods Administration's (TGA's) proposed advertising reform (PD 19 Jan) and new approach to increasing availability of pharmacist-only medicines.