News
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Expert evaluators sought
Wednesday | Mar 14 2018ADVANCING Practice is seeking the expertise of experienced pharmacists or non-pharmacist health professionals to evaluate pharmacists applying for the new "Advancing Practice" and "Advanced Practice" credentials for Australian pharmacists (PD 17 Nov 2017).
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Dispensary Corner
Tuesday | Mar 13 2018
13 Mar 18IT'S a commendable ambition to want to keep in shape and feel good, but just make sure you don't have to drug too many people along the way to do it.
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King to visit APP
Tuesday | Mar 13 2018THE Pharmacy Guild of Australia has announced that Shadow Minister for Health and Medicare the Catherine King will address delegates at the APP2018 conference on Fri 04 May.
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Xofigo interactions
Tuesday | Mar 13 2018PROSTATE cancer medicine Xofigo (radium-223 dichloride) should not be used with Zytiga (abiraterone acetate) and prednisone/prednisolone, due to an increased risk of death and fractures with this combination, according to a recommendation made by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
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Meds error reduction
Tuesday | Mar 13 2018CLINICAL decision support embedded in electronic medication management (EMM) systems offers an opportunity to reduce medication errors, according to a paper published in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy.
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Pregnancy database
Tuesday | Mar 13 2018THE TGA has updated its Prescribing Medicines in Pregnancy database, with the addition of 13 new entries including baricitinib, bezlotoxumab, cabozantinib, dupilimab, fofomycin trometamol, glecaprevir/pibrentasvir, iron [as ferric derisomaltose], lixisenatide with insulin glargine, meningococcal group B vaccine, nusinersen, patiromer, pegaspargase and ribociclib.
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Opioid monitoring in community pharmacy
Tuesday | Mar 13 2018NHMRC is collaborating with other research groups to investigate the role of screening for key pain-related outcomes and emerging problems with pharmaceutical opioids in community pharmacy practices, with the results due for release in Mar 2019.
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Pharmacist RA advice
Tuesday | Mar 13 2018PHARMACISTS play an important role in helping to reduce consumer anxiety about potential toxicity, managing side effects and reinforcing the benefits of low-dose methotrexate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, says NPS MedicineWide.
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Pill prescribing
Tuesday | Mar 13 2018PHARMACISTS in the US state of New Mexico are now able to prescribe and dispense birth control drugs to women.
