Headlines
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More Grattan feedback
Tuesday | Mar 7 2017THE controversial Grattan Institute report claiming the government could be saving $500 million annually by changing the way it pays for medicines (PD yesterday) continues to attract strong industry responses.
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Bio-Oil counterfeiter fined
Monday | Mar 6 2017UNITED Prestige Group has been ordered to pay damages and costs amounting to more than $1 million by the Federal Court, in a judgement following a ruling which found it had operated a "sophisticated counterfeiting operation" relating to Bio-Oil.
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Guild, PSA slam Grattan Report
Monday | Mar 6 2017A new report from the Grattan Institute released yesterday claims Australians pay more than $500 million a year for prescription drugs, and urges changes to the way prices are set under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
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Review draft report delay
Monday | Mar 6 2017THE Health Department has confirmed that the promised Interim Report for the Review of Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation would not be delivered as originally scheduled.
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Samples, training and deals
Monday | Mar 6 2017TODAY sees the launch of a comprehensive new service for pharmacy and other healthcare professionals providing offers of free product samples, representative visits and training for staff as well as deals for pharmacy.
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Canadian cannabis import
Monday | Mar 6 2017NORTH American pharmaceutical-grade medicinal cannabis producer Tilray, the first to be certified in accordance with the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), announced that it had successfully exported medical cannabis products to Victoria, Australia.
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Potential new TB therapies
Friday | Mar 3 2017AN INTERNATIONAL collaboration led by Sydney University Professors Richard Payne, from the School of Chemistry, and Warwick Britton, from the Sydney Medical School and the Centenary Institute, has discovered a new compound which could translate into a new drug lead for tuberculosis (TB).
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Pfizer ‘Proactive Supply’ launch
Friday | Mar 3 2017PFIZER will formally debut a new online ordering system for pharmacies at APP next week, with the new platform being the latest evolution of its long-running Pfizer Direct distribution system which controversially launched more than six years ago (PD 06 Dec 2010).
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Dispensing fail reprimand
Friday | Mar 3 2017THE Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal has reprimanded pharmacist Hayden Swan and imposed conditions on his registration after finding he engaged in unprofessional conduct by inappropriately dispensing large amounts of Sustanon 250 (testosterone) to a patient.
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Pharmacy workforce info
Thursday | Mar 2 2017THE Pharmacy Board of Australia has released a communiqu from its most recent meeting late last month, with discussions including the release of the National Health Workforce Dataset.