News
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Animal justice
Wednesday | Mar 15 2017NEW legislation introduced by the Coalition and broadly supported by the ALP, the Greens and the Animal Justice Party will take effect as of 01 Jul this year to prohibit the sale of cosmetics and other personal products that have been tested on animals or contain animal-tested ingredients.
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Guild Intern of the Year named
Wednesday | Mar 15 2017THE Pharmacy Guild of Australia and MIMS Australia have announced that Morgan Kennedy from Capital Chemist Wanniassa in the ACT is the 2016 MIMS Pharmacy Guild Intern of the Year.
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ASMI hails Canadian switch study
Wednesday | Mar 15 2017NEW research out of Canada has shown that almost $1 billion could be freed up from the country's healthcare system and the broader economy simply by switching three categories of medicine from prescription to over-the-counter.
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Pharmacy vaccine outrage
Wednesday | Mar 15 2017THE pharmacy sector had a huge reaction to comments by Influenza Specialist Group spokesman Professor Robert Booy in yesterday's Pharmacy Daily, quoting an MJA Insight article where he incorrectly claimed some chemists were offering "cheap flu shots this year using 2016 vaccine stock".
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Guild Update 14 Mar 17: APP another outstanding success
Tuesday | Mar 14 2017LAST week's APP was another outstanding success and a credit to all the Guild staff who work so hard to make it the biggest and best event on the pharmacy industry calendar.
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Dispensary Corner 14 Mar 17
Tuesday | Mar 14 2017US POLICE hope to lift the (eye)lid on the theft of over $4.5 million worth of make-up stolen from a cosmetics warehouse in Los Angeles that stored Anastasia Beverly Hills Products.
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New FDA head
Tuesday | Mar 14 2017DR SCOTT Gottlieb has been named as the new leader of the US Food and Drug Administration.
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Glaucoma Aware
Tuesday | Mar 14 2017THIS week is World Glaucoma Week with a new Glaucoma Australia campaign titled Glaucoma Aware designed to unearth 150,000 Australians who face preventable blindness and don't know it.
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ASMI drives S3 advertising
Tuesday | Mar 14 2017AUSTRALIAN Self Medication Industry Association (ASMI) chair Lindsay Forrest says the organisation's proposals for consumer advertising of S3 medications (PD 09 Feb) would see pharmacists play a larger role in Australian healthcare.
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CeBIT health focus
Tuesday | Mar 14 2017THE upcoming CeBIT Australia business technology show will this year focus on digital health, with the show including a Digital Health Conference featuring presentations from Tim Kelsey, ceo of the Australian Digital Health Agency, Renea Collins from Queensland Health and Dr John Lambert of eHealth NSW.