News
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PDL vaccination warnings
Monday | Apr 23 2018PHARMACEUTICAL Defence Limited has highlighted the importance of pharmacists administering the correct influenza vaccine based on their patients' age, with Afluria Quad, dispensed to children, the most frequently recurring vaccine involved in PDL incident reports last year.
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Pharmacy vaccinations profiled
Monday | Apr 23 2018VICTORIAN Senator Bridget McKenzie (pictured), the Deputy Leader of the Nationals and Minister for Rural Health, has profiled the need for flu immunisation by getting her flu vaccination administered by a local community pharmacist.
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Come roast James
Monday | Apr 23 2018BRISBANE pharmacist James Delahunty is set to be the subject of ridicule and mocking on 29 Apr - but it's all in a good cause.
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$5m for GBMA
Monday | Apr 23 2018THE government has awarded a Biosimilar Educational Grant to GBMA Education Ltd, the educational arm of the Generics & Biosimilar Medicines Association.
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TGA code seminars
Monday | Apr 23 2018THE Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) will host Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code Seminars in Melbourne on 30 May and Sydney on 06 Jun, covering the evolving advertising framework, approvals & complaints mechanisms - asmi.com.au.
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Nicotine gum, lozenges onto PBS
Monday | Apr 23 2018THE Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) has recommended the PBS listing of nicotine gum and lozenges, as monotherapies as a "restricted benefit for treating nicotine dependence in cigarette smokers who wish to quit and enter into a behavioural support program".
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FDA opioid plan
Monday | Apr 23 2018THE US Food and Drug Administration has released a new draft guidance to aid industry in developing new drugs for use in "medication assisted treatment" (MAT) for opioid dependence.
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Targin packaging to be modified
Monday | Apr 23 2018PHARMACEUTICAL Defence Limited has welcomed confirmation from Mundi Pharma that it will change the packaging of Targin 2.5 to differentiate it from Targin 40.
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Running festival open
Monday | Apr 23 2018REGISTRATIONS are now open for the 2018 Blackmores Sydney Running Festival on Sun 16 Sep, with 33,000 entrants expected to run the scenic courses across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in four events ranging from a 3.5km Family Fun Run through to the 42.2km Sydney Marathon - CLICK HERE.
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Dispensary Corner
Monday | Apr 23 2018
23 Apr 18THE American family who welcomed their 14th son into the world last week (PD Fri) have come up with an appropriately unusual middle name for the baby.
