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TB and COPD linked: researchers
Australian scientists have shown an important link between two, previously unconnected lung diseases: TB and COPD. While COPD has long been considered a smoker’s disease, 30% of cases have never …
RACGP demands real-time prescription drug database
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners is again calling for the immediate rollout of a real-time prescription drug database to reduce the number of people dying from prescription drug …
New site for Fred IT
The Fred IT Group has announced that its new website at fred.com.au has gone live. The new website has been launched to better reflect the technology changes that are transforming …
Oz lags behind NZ in meds access: ASMI
ASMI says New Zealand is ahead of Australia in increasing consumer access to medicines. This was in response to a new study published in PLOS One, which compared consumer access …
Alliance pays tribute to Kimberley Pharmacy Services
The National Rural Health Alliance has congratulated Kimberley Pharmacy Services in Broome, Western Australia, on being named the Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s 2015 Pharmacy of the Year. KPS has also …
William Charman to lead FIP education committee
William Charman, dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Monash University has been chosen to lead the International Pharmaceutical Federation Education Initiative Steering Committee. Professor Charman was …
PSA Awards nominations open
Nominations for the PSA Awards for Excellence are now open. National President of PSA, Grant Kardachi, says the PSA Excellence Awards acknowledge and recognise some of the profession’s great achievers. …
Fairlight Pharmacy suffers in media attacks
The owner of the Fairlight Pharmacy on Sydney’s North Shore, which was pictured in an attack on pharmacy by News health reporter Sue Dunlevy in last Sunday’s News Limited tabloids, …
‘Bile and abuse’ against pharmacists: Tambassis responds
Around Australia, hard-working pharmacists woke up this morning (18 March) to be kicked in the guts by a totally unwarranted torrent of bile and abuse from Janet Albrechtsen, writes George …
MA Chair welcomes industry, Govt collaboration
Medicines Australian Chairman, Dr Martin Cross has welcomed ongoing collaboration between the pharmaceutical industry and Government in addition to further improvements to the Governments post-market review program, which was announced …
PSA defends pharmacy on gouging, cartel claims
A newspaper report published today refers disparagingly to pharmacists as “a union of men and women in white coats” who will “who will get to gouge the public purse for …
New Guild training: overseas travellers
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia has released its latest online pharmacist CPD course titled Understanding the needs of customers travelling overseas. This course addresses the fundamental knowledge required to deliver …