News
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S4s dominate RUM
Wednesday | Jun 6 2018MORE than half of returned medicines (55%) in the Return of Unwanted Medicines (RUM) Project bins.
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Advancing Practice
Wednesday | Jun 6 2018
round 2APPLICATIONS are now being invited for the second round of pharmacists wanting to be recognised under the new centralised Advancing Practice initiative (PD 05 Mar).
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Blackmores opens Bungarribee
Wednesday | Jun 6 2018BLACKMORES yesterday formally opened its new distribution centre in the western Sydney suburb of Bungarribee.
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Bod signs with Symbion
Wednesday | Jun 6 2018LISTED natural medicines and medicinal cannabis company Bod Australia has signed a distribution agreement with its second large pharmacy wholesaler, Symbion.
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Migraine opportunity
Wednesday | Jun 6 2018SUBMISSIONS to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee in relation to a new migraine prevention treatment called Aimovig (erenumab) are due by close of business today.
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Green tea liver harm
Wednesday | Jun 6 2018THE Therapeutic Goods Administration is monitoring the safety of products that contain Camellia sinensis (green tea extracts) in light of "rare cases of harm to the liver".
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Valpam defect alert
Wednesday | Jun 6 2018ARROW Pharma, in consultation with the Therapeutic Goods Administration, has issued a product defect alert for one batch of Valpam 5 (diazepam) due to the possibility of the blister strip including white Valpam 2mg tablets, instead of yellow Valpam 5mg tablets.
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Deprescribing pilot
Wednesday | Jun 6 2018EFFECTIVE today, pharmacists across 10 GP surgeries in Devon, UK, will test new guidelines, which aim to prompt clinicians to modify hypoglycaemic targets for frail older people with type 2 diabetes.
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Lower BP vindicated
Wednesday | Jun 6 2018A STUDY comparing 2014 US hypertension guidelines with new 2017 recommendations to lower blood pressure by 10mm of mercury to 130/80 has demonstrated further reduction in major CVD events and all-cause mortality, according to a new study published in JAMA Cardiology.
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Dispensary Corner
Wednesday | Jun 6 2018
06 Jun 18SO YOU'VE been told you have low testosterone levels?.
