News
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Teva trade secrets
Monday | Jul 17 2017TEVA Pharmaceuticals has filed a lawsuit against its former head of regulatory affairs in the USA, alleging she passed proprietary information to her boyfriend - who was the ceo of rival Apotex.
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Priceline for Beecroft
Monday | Jul 17 2017THE northern Sydney suburb of Beecroft is set to become home to Priceline's newest pharmacy in the coming months.
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UK meds app update
Monday | Jul 17 2017FOLLOWING the recent launch of a new, faster, easier-to-use and access app by the publishers of the British National Formulary (BNF) and British National Formulary for Children (BNFC), the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has confirmed that its own in-house BNF app will be withdrawn later this year.
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Pensioners selling prescription drugs
Monday | Jul 17 2017MISUSE of prescription opioid-based painkillers is rife in rural areas, with elderly people on-selling the drugs to help pay their bills, according to the Rural Doctors Association.
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Praxbind ‘rapid’
Monday | Jul 17 2017BOEHRINGER Ingelheim's anticoagulation reversal agent Praxbind has demonstrated "rapid, complete, and sustained reversal of dabigatran etexilate" (Pradaxa) in a new study dubbed RE-VERSE AD.
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MA welcomes PBAC appointment
Monday | Jul 17 2017MEDICINES Australia (MA) has said it welcomes the appointment of Michelle Burke (pictured) to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) (PD Fri).
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FDA opioid training
Monday | Jul 17 2017IN AN effort to reduce the scope of "the epidemic of opioid addiction", US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Scott Gottlieb has announced new training initiatives for pharmacists and other non-physician providers.
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Mystery shopper study flawed
Monday | Jul 17 2017THE Australian College of Pharmacy has challenged the validity of conclusions drawn from the recent International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy publication describing a 'mystery shop' of Sydney community pharmacies (PD 13 Jul), which doctors claimed showed low rates of GP referrals.
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Mental health prescription
Monday | Jul 17 2017IMPROVING medication safety in mental health will require a systems approach and involvement of all stakeholders, especially pharmacy services, according to a new report prepared for the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care by the University of South Australia.
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