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Intimate data apps need monitoring
Wednesday | May 24 2023MENSTRUATION monitoring apps are among the latest innovations in 'FemTech', but Flinders University law experts Prof Tania Leiman and Lydia Chia explain that the legal implications of who can access this highly personal data from ovulation apps and how can it be used are not clearly understood.
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Brace for demand surge
Tuesday | May 23 2023THE National Pharmaceutical Services Association (NPSA) stated recently that it is bracing for medicine demand surges when 60-day dispensing is introduced and is calling for "an industry-wide consultation process to begin immediately to properly consider all aspects of the new policy and manage medicine access".
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‘Topping out’ CSL facility
Tuesday | May 23 2023CSL Seqirus has today announced that construction of its new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Australia has reached its highest point, known as 'topping out'.
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SANE gets a formal tick
Tuesday | May 23 2023SANE has become the first organisation in Australia to have its digital mental health services formally accredited for safety, efficacy and security by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
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Kids under-vaccinated
Tuesday | May 23 2023WITH just under two weeks until winter is officially here, parents are being urged to get their kids vaccinated against influenza, as new figures show only one in 10 kids have had the jab.
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President Luke Kelly to lead PSA NSW
Monday | May 22 2023LUKE Kelly (pictured) has been elected as President of the New South Wales Branch of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.
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Back to the lab they go
Monday | May 22 2023OVERSEAS, more pharmacists are returning to their laboratories and offering an additional service in their pharmacies that is often overlooked: the preparation of "galenic formulations", ekathimerini.com reported last week.
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Education key in tragedy
Monday | May 22 2023DEMENTIA Australia has expressed that it is "devastated by the tragic events" that have led to sufferer Clare Nowland being hospitalised.
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Mobile CT van in far NSW
Monday | May 22 2023NSW'S first mobile CT imaging van was officially unveiled by the state's Minister for Health Ryan Park last week.
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Keep calm, future is bright urges PPA
Friday | May 19 2023THE Professional Pharmacists Australia (PPA) is calling on its members and all pharmacy employees to remain calm, despite the furore around 60-day dispensing, emphasising the "future for pharmacists is brighter than they want you to believe".