News
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Aged care pharmacist push
Tuesday | Sep 18 2018THE Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) has welcomed last weekend's government announcement of a Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, saying it provides an opportunity to consider embedding pharmacists in aged care to improve medication use.
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Blackmores pharmacy education gong
Tuesday | Sep 18 2018BLACKMORES Institute has been awarded the inaugural NutraIngredients-Asia Nutrition Research Program of the Year award, for its innovative CMEd (Complementary Medicines Education) Program.
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GP pharmacist pilot positive
Tuesday | Sep 18 2018PROFESSIONAL Pharmacists Australia (PPA) has highlighted a presentation at this month's International Pharmaceutical Federation World Congress which presented findings of a pilot scheme where clinical pharmacists worked in general practices.
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Nitrofurantoin module
Tuesday | Sep 18 2018THE Pharmaceutical Society of Australia has released a learning module focusing on nitrofurantoin suspension, covering precautions, extemporaneous preparation, packaging, storage and labelling as well as counselling patients.
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Aspirin overuse
Tuesday | Sep 18 2018THREE groundbreaking papers published in the New England Journal of Medicine, from a team of Monash University researchers in Melbourne, reveal the results from a seven-year study of the benefits and risks of a low daily dose of aspirin to the lives of people aged more than 70 years.
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US opioid use up
Tuesday | Sep 18 2018AS MANY as six million people in the US are experiencing opioid use disorder, nearly three times higher than the government's estimate of 2.1 million, global management consulting firm McKinsey and Co.
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Ig Nobel awards
Tuesday | Sep 18 2018A Japanese researcher has taken out the 2018 Ig Nobel prize for medical education, for a paper in which he demonstrated that self-colonoscopy in a sitting position without sedation is possible.
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Antibiotics vs self-care
Tuesday | Sep 18 2018PHARMACISTS have a critical role in antimicrobial stewardship and helping avoid the current forecast of 10 million deaths per year as a result of antimicrobial resistance, according to Wales' Bangor University research fellow Martin Duerden.
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ASMI ad seminars
Tuesday | Sep 18 2018THE Australian Self-Medication Industry is hosting Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code Seminars in Sydney and Melbourne in Oct.
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Expand phcy vaccines
Tuesday | Sep 18 2018POLICY makers in the US are being urged by research academics to consider expanding pharmacy practice laws to allow pharmacists to vaccinate adolescents as a way to improve geographic access to adolescent vaccines, particularly for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which has low uptake.
