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Business tools to feature at APP2016
As pharmacy owners face a difficult fiscal environment, three of the APP2016 Business Workshops will take an integrated approach and will provide owners and managers with the tools to plan …
Erin Pavy is Pharmacy Assistant of the Year
Erin Pavy from the ACT has been crowned Pharmacy Assistant of the Year for 2015. Pavy (fourth from right) was named as the recipient of the award at a gala …
ASMI submits codeine package to Government
ASMI has made a submission to the Goverment outlining a package of measures to combat codeine misuse. The organisation says proposed changes to the scheduling of OTC codeine-containing medicines will …
Pharmacy Assistants Conference 2015: news
The AJP is reporting from the Pharmacy Assistants Conference 2015, held at the QT Hotel on the Gold Coast. While the 6CPA was overall “fabulous” for pharmacy, the income pharmacies …
Patients want better co-ordinated health: CHF
Health care in Australia will require a big shake-up and investment in primary health care if the Government is to meet the responses of an official survey, the Consumers Health …
Codeine cold and flu drugs upschedule not economically sensible: ASMI
The interim decision to upschedule codeine-containing cold and flu medicines to Schedule 4 does not make public health or economic sense, the Australian Self Medication Industry says. It says new …
Phones a breeding ground for microbes: University of Queensland study
Think twice before you reach for your mobile phone at lunch, says an expert from the University of Queensland: many phones are a breeding ground for microbes. UQ’s Dr Alysha …
Why Australians don’t take their medicines
Many Australian adults aren’t taking their medicines as directed, a new survey conducted for NPS Medicinewise shows. NPS Medicinewise is currently holding Be Medicinewise Week 2015, an initiative intended to …
Hair samples shows ecstasy users more stressed
For the first time, researchers have used hair samples to measure levels of stress caused by MDMA or ecstasy use. Lead researcher Luke Downey from Swinburne University of Technology studied …
New Zealand pioneering downscheduling: Gauld
With last year’s reclassification of sildenafil, New Zealand reinforced its reputation as an innovator in down-scheduling medicines from prescription to non-prescription status, says ASMI. International switch expert Dr Natalie Gauld …
Call to pharmacies to support Walk4BrainCancer 2015
National President of the Pharmacy Guild George Tambassis has featured in a video encouraging pharmacies to create awareness about brain cancer by supporting Walk4BrainCancer 2015. In the video, Tambassis asks …
Medicines and children: Be Medicinewise Week Day Two
With over 10,600 phone calls about accidental medicines exposures and 4,391 calls about dosing errors made to the NSW Poisons Information Centre in one year—all in children 0-14 years—NPS MedicineWise …