News
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GPs open to crisis dispensing changes
Thursday | Nov 14 2019GENERAL practitioners would welcome discussions on ways to bolster patients' access to medications during emergency situations.
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Coroner backs festival pill testing
Thursday | Nov 14 2019POLITICAL leaders in NSW are being urged to back medically supervised pilot pill testing trials at music festivals across the state this summer.
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Costs put patients off their medicine
Thursday | Nov 14 2019AUSTRALIANS living in the most socio-economically disadvantaged areas are twice as like to delay or not get a prescription filled than those in the least disadvantaged areas, data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reveals.
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Merck serves up new office
Thursday | Nov 14 2019THE official opening of Merck's new Sydney office in Macquarie Park (PD yesterday) saw former Aussie tennis champ, and now local MP, John Alexander OAM, assist Merck Chairman, Dr Frank Stangenberg-Haverkamp, in the official ribbon cutting.
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GuildSuper wins innovation gong
Thursday | Nov 14 2019GUILDSUPER has been recognised at the World Pension Summit in The Hague for its innovative SUPERSUPER program, which has won the Innovation in Communication and Member Engagement Award announced during the event.
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Diabetes Day
Thursday | Nov 14 2019TODAY is World Diabetes Day with the theme 'Family and Diabetes' and a social media campaign under the hashtag #mydiabetesfamily.
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In bad shape…
Thursday | Nov 14 2019THE Therapeutic Goods Administration has alerted consumers about a product called Me2Shape capsules which contain the undeclared substance fluoxetine.
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Med cannabis conference
Thursday | Nov 14 2019MEDICINAL Cannabis Industry Australia (MCIA) has launched an industry-led Australian medicinal cannabis conference, ACannabis, set for Melbourne 03 - 04 Mar 2020.
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New naltrexone indication
Thursday | Nov 14 2019GRIFFITH University researchers from the National Centre for Neuroimmunology and Emerging Disease have demonstrated that the opioid agonist, naltrexone, significantly restored the function of faulty receptors associated with myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS).
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Excreted antidepressants disrupt fish
Thursday | Nov 14 2019RESEARCH out of Monash University has shown "the pervasive antidepressant pollutant, fluoxetine.
