Pharmacy remuneration tribunal roles up for grabs
Health Dept seeks three new PBRT members The Department of Health and Aged Care is seeking three recruits for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Remuneration Tribunal (PBRT), the body which determines how …
And then there were three
Another consumer division spinoff on the way, this time by Sanofi Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi has portrayed how it imagines spinning off its consumer division and turning the parent, in the …
TGA issues sunscreen alert
Bondi Sands mist product has incorrect usage directions, says regulator The Therapeutic Good Administration (TGA) has issued a product defection correction warning consumers to not spray a Bondi Sands sunscreen …
CWH dividends up, profits drop
Discount giant’s revenue marginally higher but increased sales costs hit overall result Chemist Warehouse founders are on the receiving end of a bumper dividend totalling $364 million, according to the …
Ramsay’s modest pharmacy operation a tiny chink of light
Group share price plummets $1.5bn as dividend halves amid a slow post-pandemic recovery Multinational private hospital operation Ramsay Healthcare was punished by shareholders with a 12.1% drop in its share …
Ozempic competitor to launch in spite of PBS knockback
Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro will be on the private scrip market by the end of September Revolutionary new type 2 diabetes drug Mounjaro – which is almost better known for producing …
Johnson & Johnson consumer spin-off complete
Share exchange offer leaves J & J with just 9.5% of new consumer health outfit Kenvue Shares of newly-minted consumer health care operation Kenvue shares rose 1.4% in pre-market trading …
Front-of-store may help alleviate 60-day Priceline pain
But “there definitely will be an impact”; Wesfarmers Health boss Priceline’s strong front-of-store profile offers “opportunities” to take some of the edge off the drop in dispensing income as a …
LSD, demonstrations and the premier of self-service pharmacy
The August 1968 AJP sounds alarm bells about the “hippy-cult” and the consumption of hallucinogenic drugs It’s August 1968, the so-called “Summer Of Love” has just passed, a new moral …
Large banner groups to benefit in 60-day environment; EBOS boss
And Symbion wholesaler arm unlikely to give community pharmacy any price respite 60-day dispensing will benefit large banner groups in the long-term as part of a “natural evolution”, EBOS chief …
Ozempic diabetes competitor gets PBS knockback
Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro would need “substantial price reduction”, says PBAC Mounjaro, the type-2 diabetes medication that the New York Times recently predicted “’could overshadow Ozempic” has been refused funding via …
CWH underpayment action begins
Hearing before South Australian Employment Tribunal listed for 10 days A case brought against some South Australian Chemist Warehouse franchisees outlets alleging underpayment of Certificate III employees will begin today …