News
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Guild calls for co-pay cut
Tuesday | Feb 5 2019THE Pharmacy Guild of Australia has called upon the Federal Government to reduce patient co-payments for medicines, to meet its own stated goal of managing the affordability of medicines.
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Safety Net orders
Tuesday | Feb 5 2019THE Federal Department of Human Services has advised it will no longer take phone orders for PBS Safety Net Cards and envelopes effective immediately.
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TGA CM guidelines
Tuesday | Feb 5 2019THE Therapeutic Goods Administration has published updated guidelines on the evidence required to support indications for listed complementary medicines.
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Contrave approval
Tuesday | Feb 5 2019INOVA Pharmaceuticals has welcomed the TGA approval of its new Contrave weight loss medication, which is a combination of naltrexone and buproprion.
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Nicotine course
Tuesday | Feb 5 2019THE Woolcock Institute of Medical Research is hosting a Nicotine Addiction and Smoking Cessation Training course.
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Managing insulin
Tuesday | Feb 5 2019GUILD Learning & Development has released a new online course to give pharmacists clinical information about Toujeo (insulin glargine 300 units/mL), sponsored by the drug's manufacturer Sanofi.
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Statins for over 75s?
Tuesday | Feb 5 2019DESPITE a European study last year reporting statins had no benefit in healthy patients aged over 75 years, Australian experts criticised its methodology as flawed and now have the evidence demonstrating that statins do benefit these older age groups.
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Dispensary Corner
Tuesday | Feb 5 2019
05 Feb 19IT MAY be time to start selling face paint in the "itch and bite" sector of your pharmacy.
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PSSt…cheque this out!
Monday | Feb 4 2019THE National Australian Pharmacy Students Association presented this gigantic novelty cheque to the Pharmacists' Support Service at last month's NAPSA Congress in Adelaide.
