News
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Diabetes Advantage
Tuesday | Feb 13 2018ADVANTAGE Pharmacy Group has partnered with Diabetes Victoria to roll out the Life! program in its Victorian pharmacies.
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GPs to join exchanges
Tuesday | Feb 13 2018VICTORIA'S new SafeScript real-time monitoring system (PD 09 Feb) will see more than 6,000 GPs across the state having to join the eRx or Medisecure prescription exchanges in order to prescribe S8 drugs and benzodiazepines, with Australian Doctor reporting less than half of all the GPs in Australia are currently participating in the exchanges.
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New framework phase-in
Tuesday | Feb 13 2018PHARMACY interns' assessment based on the revised National Competency Standards Framework for Pharmacists in Australia 2016 (PD 01 Jun 2017) has been timelined in a joint announcement from the Pharmacy Board of Australia and the Australian Pharmacy Council (APC).
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Sigma seals Medibank deal
Tuesday | Feb 13 2018SIGMA Healthcare has launched a new three-year partnership with Medibank, with the pact to see the rollout of customer offers for private health insurance and for Amcal pharmacy customers.
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Weekly Comment 12 Feb 18: Counter offers – not that flattering
Monday | Feb 12 2018WELCOME to PD's weekly comment feature.
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Dispensary Corner 12 Feb 18
Monday | Feb 12 2018MOST people know that basic human hygiene is one of the best defences against disease, however a recent study by Mattress Advisor found that the average person waits four times too long to wash their bed sheets.
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MedReleaf statement
Monday | Feb 12 2018WITH reference to the article, 'Pharmacy Cannabis Training', which appeared in Pharmacy Daily on February 6, 2018, MedReleaf Australia wishes to retract the statement that 'a comprehensive medicinal cannabis education program under development by NPS MedicineWise subsidiary VentureWise had an aim of "building confidence in MedReleaf's formulations"'.
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Tropical disease work
Monday | Feb 12 2018SYDNEY University researchers have launched a new drug discovery project which takes an "open source approach" to find compounds for the treatment of mycetoma, a tropical infectious disease which causes devastating deformities.
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EMA valproate alert
Monday | Feb 12 2018THE European Medicines Agency has recommended a range of new measures to avoid exposure of unborn babies to valproate medicines in the womb - more details at ema.europa.eu.
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Sunset for sunset
Monday | Feb 12 2018THE Federal House of Representatives last week passed an amendment to the National Health Act which will remove the sunset clause on pharmacy Location Rules.
