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Omega-3 PBS?
Thursday | Feb 21 2019OBSTETRICIAN Professor Julie Quinlivan, from the University of Notre Dame Australia, in Fremantle, says public health messages should promote fish oil supplements in pregnancy in the wake of a Cochrane review released late last year, according to a report by 6minutes.
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Free vax for A&TSIs
Thursday | Feb 21 2019THE Federal Government will fund free influenza vaccination for 170,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (A&TSI) children five to 14 years of age and has also committed $12 million to boost a national immunisation education campaign, Health Minister Greg Hunt said this week.
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Guild leaders funded
Thursday | Feb 21 2019THE Pharmacy Guild of Australia, Queensland Branch, has been named as a successful funding recipient as part of the Queensland Government's 'Advancing Women in Business Initiative'.
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Import drugs warning
Thursday | Feb 21 2019HEALTH professionals and consumers are being warned by the Therapeutic Goods Administration that Boxy Indelar capsules and Mang Luk Power Slim capsules pose a serious risk to health and should not be taken.
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Dispensary Corner 21 Feb 19
Thursday | Feb 21 2019WHO doesn't want an extra hit of novocaine when the dentist is masochistically drilling holes through your pearly whites?.
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EBOS forecasts FY20 growth
Wednesday | Feb 20 2019EBOS says it expects to increase its underlying earnings during the remainder of the current financial year, with further growth forecast into 2019/20 "as we commence servicing the Chemist Warehouse contract volumes".
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Blackmores bumper first half report
Wednesday | Feb 20 2019AUSTRALIA'S largest complementary medicines company Blackmores has reported first half F19 revenue record of $319 million, up 11%, despite China sales dropping 11% in the same period (PD breaking news yesterday).
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Last week to nominate
Wednesday | Feb 20 2019THIS is the last week to nominate amazing women for the Blackmores 2019 Mercie Whellan Women+Wellbeing Awards.
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API CAGR & ROE up
Wednesday | Feb 20 2019AUSTRALIAN Pharmaceutical Industries (API) has highlighted its FY18 ongoing upward trend of compound annual growth rate (CAGR) and return on equity (ROE) in its CEO Connect report.