News
-
Zantac discount deal
Tuesday | Jan 23 2018ASPEN Australia is promoting a special "double discount" on Zantac, with 10% off the price of 24 assorted 12 & 24 hour relief medication packs when ordered before 30 Apr.
-
Not-so-smart thief
Tuesday | Jan 23 2018A woman has been sentenced in the Bundaberg Magistrates Court in Queensland after pleading guilty to stealing a $30 bottle of vitamins from a local pharmacy.
-
February epidemic asthma surge
Tuesday | Jan 23 2018THE National Asthma Council Australia is urging pharmacists to ask clients if their children have an up-to-date asthma plan.
-
New GSK APAC chief
Tuesday | Jan 23 2018GSK Consumer Healthcare has appointed Filippo Lanzi to the role of regional head of Asia Pacific, replacing Zubair Ahmed who has become non-executive chairman of the company's India Board.
-
Pharmacists and AMR
Tuesday | Jan 23 2018PHARMACISTS are an "underutilised resource for Antimicrobial Stewardship," according to a Qld study published this month in the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice.
-
Adherence Perx
Tuesday | Jan 23 2018SYDNEY start-up Perx Health, with the support of a Government 'Jobs for NSW' $25,000 grant, has developed an app for digital devices that "gamifies" medicine-taking such that adherent patients are rewarded with vouchers for petrol, movie tickets and gift cards.
-
-
TGA extends tender
Tuesday | Jan 23 2018THE TGA has extended the lodgement date for its Request for Tender for the Establishment of a Therapeutic Goods Evaluation Panel.
-
CMA blasts ‘fringe’ groups
Tuesday | Jan 23 2018COMPLEMENTARY Medicines Australia (CMA) has criticised Friends of Science in Medicine and health activist Ken Harvey, (PD yesterday)describing him as "disingenuous" on the subject of advertising pre-approvals.
-
Dose Innovations administration
Tuesday | Jan 23 2018EXTERNAL administrators have been appointed to Brisbane-based Dose Innovations Pty Ltd, which distributes the Rowa Automated Dispensary system endorsed by the Pharmacy Guild's Gold Cross Products & Services in 2015.