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Aust plain packaging goes global
Thursday | Nov 29 2018MORE than 20 countries have taken steps to introduce Australian style plain packaging for tobacco products and it is likely that more will follow, according to Australian experts who looked into the World Trade Organization's (WTO) recent decision to allow plain packaging.
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Arthrem NZ warning
Thursday | Nov 29 2018NEW Zealand's Medsafe regulator has updated a previous "alert communication" relating to Artemisia Annua or Sweet wormwood extract marketed as Arthrem (PD 19 Feb), confirming further reports of liver toxicity.
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Pharmacist to prison
Thursday | Nov 29 2018SYDNEY pharmacist Katherine Gong has been given a custodial sentence after pleading guilty to prohibition on wholesale supply of certain substances (PD 22 Nov).
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Lipids hit Aust budget
Thursday | Nov 29 2018HIGH cholesterol levels placed an estimated $4 billion burden on the Australian economy in 2017-18, with more than one in three adult Australians, or 7.1 million people, estimated to be living with high cholesterol, according to a new Heart Foundation report.
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Federal MPs back Guild
Wednesday | Nov 28 2018POLITICIANS of all persuasions last night pledged their support for Australian community pharmacy at the Pharmacy Guild of Australia's annual Parliamentary Dinner.
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PBS key for health – Tambassis
Wednesday | Nov 28 2018PHARMACY Guild National President George Tambassis last night highlighted the key role of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, noting that the dispensing of PBS medicines in Australia was a "very effective public-private partnership".
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Union targets Chemist Warehouse
Wednesday | Nov 28 2018THE National Union of Workers yesterday slammed what it described as a "widespread culture of sexual harassment, bullying, and exploitation of labour hire casuals" at Chemist Warehouse distribution centres in Preston and Somerton in Victoria.
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Guild Parliamentary Dinner
Wednesday | Nov 28 2018SEVERAL hundred Australian pharmacy leaders gathered in the Great Hall of Australian Parliament House last night for the 2018 Pharmacy Guild of Australia annual Parliamentary Dinner.
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PSA peak funding
Wednesday | Nov 28 2018THE Pharmaceutical Society of Australia has been recognised as the country's national pharmacy peak body, with the Government yesterday confirming three years of funding under the Health Peak and Advisory Bodies Programme.
