News
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MHR scripts >12 million
Monday | Jan 15 2018THE total number of prescription records uploaded to the My Health Record system by healthcare providers has now reached 12,380,209 while dispense records by pharmacists stand at 3,401,667.
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Regurgitator to headline APP party
Monday | Jan 15 2018AUSTRALIAN Pharmacy Professional Conference and Trade Exhibition (APP) organisers have announced that the APP2018 social program will be headlined with Australian rock band Regurgitator at the Street Party social night on Sat 05 May.
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GSK joins Click & Collect
Monday | Jan 15 2018GLAXOSMITHKLINE'S GSK Consumer Healthcare has confirmed its participation in the Pharmacy Guild's 'Click and Collect' program, as part of an overarching strategy to deliver a digital transformation program for community pharmacy in Australia.
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Dispensary Corner 12 Jan 18
Friday | Jan 12 2018WHITE privilege - Lelux Hospital in Thailand is offering a skin whitening service - nothing unusual in that is there?.
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Final PA pain module
Friday | Jan 12 2018THE Pharmacy Guild of Australia and the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia have released the final module to assist pharmacy assistants in their communication with patients about pain, in anticipation of the 01 Feb scheduling changes for codeine-containing medicines.
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BD pinged by FDA
Friday | Jan 12 2018THE US Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning letter to Becton Dickinson & Co about marketing "significantly modified versions" of BD Vacutainer blood collection tubes without clearance or approval.
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Panadol win for GSK
Friday | Jan 12 2018RECKITT Benckiser has been banned from making claims that ibuprofen (Nurofen) provides faster and more effective relief from pain caused by common headaches than does paracetamol (Panadol), with a Federal Court judge yesterday saying RB had engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct.
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Tamper-resistant oxy doesn’t help abuse
Friday | Jan 12 2018A new UNSW National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre study published in The Lancet Psychiatry this week has found the introduction of tamper-resistant OxyContin tablets in Australia in 2014 has had little impact on overprescribing, overuse and harm of opioids.
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Res-care meds simplified
Friday | Jan 12 2018WEBSTERCARE has announced changes to its RxMedChart process, claiming the new system can "reduce time spent on administration by doctors in NSW aged care facilities by 60%".
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Dispensary Corner 11 Jan 18
Thursday | Jan 11 2018MEDICAL experts have long suggested that dentures be regularly cleaned, however one 68-year-old man from NZ can probably skip the next few sessions after inadvertently washing his pair rather intensively in the Tasman Sea.
