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Cannabis cookies fail
Thursday | Jan 31 2019CALIFORNIAN natural medicine physician William Eidelman is fighting to retain his licence after he prescribed cannabis cookies to a four-year-old boy.
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Deprescribing hurdles
Thursday | Jan 31 2019POLYPHARMACY is increasing among older Australians, raising their risk of experiencing medication-related harm, according to Wollongong University researchers who identified factors affecting the process of deprescribing by GPs.
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Reviewing antibiotics
Thursday | Jan 31 2019UK Community pharmacists will be called upon by the British Government to play an active role reviewing the dose and duration of antimicrobial prescriptions, as part of the country's plans to battle antimicrobial resistance.
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Pharmacists can ease the burden
Thursday | Jan 31 2019THE Pharmacy Guild of Australia says Australia's community pharmacy sector stands ready to fill gaps in primary care, citing a new Productivity Commission report which highlights the burden on GPs and hospitals.
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$36.8m for Parkinson’s
Thursday | Jan 31 2019PARKINSON'S disease research has received a boost, with $36.8 million committed by the Health Department through the Garvan Institute's Australian Parkinson Mission and in Parkinson's nurses to improve the life of people living with the disease and ultimately to find a cure.
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Dispensary Corner 31 Jan 19
Thursday | Jan 31 2019ONCE upon a time it was a trusted medical doctrine to prescribe a course of leeches for virtually any physical ailment, but thankfully very few have remained faithful to its uniform usage over the years.
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Pharmacy leadership program
Wednesday | Jan 30 2019THE University of Sydney has announced the launch of a new "Pharmacy Leaders Program" which is being offered for the first time ever during 2019.
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Hats off to NAPSA’s Team VPSA!
Wednesday | Jan 30 2019THESE outfits worn by the Victorian Pharmacy Students' Association last weekend really taco the cake.
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Pharmacy’s primary importance
Wednesday | Jan 30 2019HEALTH programs that encourage patients to visit pharmacies as their first port of call for minor conditions have been shown to reduce the burden on doctors and allow better use of available resources, according to a major International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) presentation to the World Health Organization's Executive Board.
