News
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European deal for Aussie cannabis firm
Tuesday | Dec 5 2017AUSTRALIAN listed cannabis firm Creso Pharma has signed an exclusive commercialisation agreement with Swiss pharma company Doetsch Grether for marketing of Creso's hemp based nutraceutical cannaQIX10 in Switzerland as a food supplement.
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MHRA targets online diet pills
Tuesday | Dec 5 2017BRITAIN'S Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is urging people wanting to lose weight to turn to "safe, legitimate and appropriate routes," as part of a campaign against illicit diet tablets.
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NSW discharge summaries in MHR
Tuesday | Dec 5 2017NSW Health has integrated its HealtheNet Clinical Portal with the Federal Government's My Health Record (MHR) system, meaning clinicians are able to view MHR data via the in-house portal.
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Statins still most prescribed
Tuesday | Dec 5 2017THE top 10 drugs dispensed in Australia during the year Jul 2016 to Jun 2017 were dominated by blood pressure and cholesterol lowering drugs, with atorvastatin and rosuvastatin in positions one and two respectively for both pills popped per-day and prescription numbers dispensed.
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Guild Update 05 Dec 17: Member guide on supplier trading terms
Tuesday | Dec 5 2017MEMBER guide on supplier trading terms.
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Weekly Comment 04 Dec 17: 5 Reasons to Use Supplements for Acne
Monday | Dec 4 2017WELCOME to PD's weekly comment feature.
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Dispensary Corner 04 Dec 17
Monday | Dec 4 2017An IRANIAN woman with an obsession with Angelina Jolie has taken her fandom to unusually creepy levels by undergoing more than 50 plastic surgeries to look like the Hollywod A-lister.
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Etanercept update
Monday | Dec 4 2017A pharmacist fact sheet has been published by the Health Department in relation to the 01 Dec changes to encourage the use of biosimilar brands of biological medicines.
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FDA ticks Ogivri
Monday | Dec 4 2017THE US Food and Drug Administration has approved Ogivri (trastuszumab-dkst) as a biosimilar to Herceptin (trastuzumab) for the treatment of patients with breast or metastatic stomach cancer whose tumours overexpress the HER2 gene.
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4th codeine module
Monday | Dec 4 2017THE fourth online module of an education package to support the pharmacy profession through the upcoming codeine scheduling changes has been released by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia and the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.
