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Events Calendar 31 Mar 17
Friday | Mar 31 201729-30 Apr: Victorian Pharmacy Conference 2017; Monash University, Parkville; register here: www.psa.org.au 21 May: 2017 PSA.
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Dispensary Corner 31 Mar 17
Friday | Mar 31 2017SPORT looks to have had a significant effect on the community in Iceland, which is experiencing a record-breaking baby boom exactly nine months after the country's stunning victory over England in the Euro 2016 football tournament.
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Measles outbreaks
Friday | Mar 31 2017VACCINE hesitancy and supply chain problems have been blamed for the relatively widespread outbreak of measles in Europe especially in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania, Switzerland and Ukraine, reports the BBC.
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Strokecheck paused
Friday | Mar 31 2017WITH recent concerns around the Strokecheck program being offered within Amcal pharmacies (PD 12 Jan, 27 Mar), Sigma has announced that it is pulling the program from Amcal stores, in spite of some early positive results for patients.
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Top 100 drugs app
Friday | Mar 31 2017SIXTEEN schools of pharmacy in the UK have collaborated to develop a 'top 100 drugs' app for undergraduate pharmacists.
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HPV vax rates up
Friday | Mar 31 2017SIGNIFICANT improvements have been made across Australia in immunising girls against the human papillomavirus (HPV), according to a new report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
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Mandatory reporting
Friday | Mar 31 2017AUTHORITIES in Ontario, Canada are moving towards making it mandatory for pharmacies in the province to report medication dispensing errors to a third party.
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FDA approves new MS drug
Friday | Mar 31 2017THE US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Ocrevus (ocrelizumab) to treat adult patients with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS) and primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS).
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Pharmacy assistant & student opportunity
Friday | Mar 31 2017IF YOU are active in talking to customers about their choices of over the counter products in pharmacy, you are invited to participate in a project being supervised from the School of Pharmacy, Griffith University titled 'Decision making in non-prescription medicine supply'.
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Amcal inhaler help
Friday | Mar 31 2017AMCAL has taken inspiration from a University of Sydney study reported in Pharmacy Daily last year (PD 26 Jan 2016) that revealed 90% of Australian asthmatics are using their inhaler incorrectly.
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