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UK regulation plans
Monday | Feb 13 2017BRITISH pharmacists could be regulated by a single body also overseeing dentists, optometrists and chiropractors under a UK plan to merge nine British health regulators into one register covering "high street commercial premises" .
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Pfizer pulls the pin on Adelaide plant
Monday | Feb 13 2017PHARMACEUTICAL giant Pfizer will close its Thebarton manufacturing plant in Adelaide by the end of 2021, despite announcing plans to expand the site into a "state-of-the-art" facility less than 12 months ago, reports ABC News.
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Four Corners targets pharmacists tonight
Monday | Feb 13 2017THE ABC's current affairs flagship Four Corners will tonight lift the lid on the regulation and marketing of complementary medicines - and "whether the credibility of chemists is threatened by selling them".
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Polypharmacy probs
Monday | Feb 13 2017RESIDENTS of aged care facilities who take multiple medications and have complex medication regimens are more likely to be hospitalised than those who don't, according to research out of Monash University.
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Review of PAH meds
Monday | Feb 13 2017THE public submission process for Post-market Review of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) Medicines has been opened by the Health Department, inviting interested organisations and individuals to submit.
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Supercare Pharmacies tender
Monday | Feb 13 2017VICTORIAN Minister for Health Jill Hennessy has called for tenders for the next seven Supercare Pharmacies which will open 24-hours-a-day, every day, with a nurse on site from 6 to 10pm.
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Pharmacy MyHR funding
Monday | Feb 13 2017THE Australian Digital Health Agency is offering community pharmacy software vendors grants of up to $250,000 to upgrade their products to support the My Health Record (MyHR) system.
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Events Calendar 10 Feb 17
Friday | Feb 10 2017WELCOME to Pharmacy Daily’s events calendar, opportunities to earn CPE and CPD points.
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Dispensary Corner 10 Feb 17
Friday | Feb 10 2017Male circumcision has been demonstrated to confer as much benefit as vaccination, according to a systematic review published in the World Journal of Clinical Pediatrics.
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Deutsch med cannabis
Friday | Feb 10 2017GERMANY'S Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices is creating an agency to oversee the cultivation of marijuana and the subsequent production of cannabis to be used medicinally, in line with a new law approved by the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, according to the British Medical Journal.