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PBS designed for a bygone era
Medicare reform must not come at the expense of improving other areas of Australia’s health system, including the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), Trent Zimmerman, warns. Writing in The Guardian former …
Put safety ahead of convenience
Patients are being urged to eschew the convenience of online prescribing services in favour of a “proper consult”. Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) Victorian Chair, Dr Anita …
Yes, masks reduce the risk of spreading Covid, despite a review saying they don’t
Do face masks really work to reduce Covid transmission? C Raina MacIntyre and Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, UNSW Sydney; David Fisman, University of Toronto, and Trish Greenhalgh, University of Oxford take …
Vast amounts of drugs prescribed ‘incompatible with life’
The dispensing of a lot of fake scripts could have been avoided, if one doctor had acted on a pharmacist’s concerns A Tribunal has heard how a patient walked off …
Vale Alistair Lloyd
PSA mourns the passing of a leading pharmacy educator The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Dr Alistair Lloyd AO FRD ED …
Case highlights issue of when to retire
A doctor’s practice has been called “lazy” and “sloppy” after he treated himself and a close family member for a decade The Medical Board of Australia has issued a statement …
Vale Frank Ahern
Profession mourns the passing of a leading inspector and pharmacist Frank Raymond Ahern died on 15 December 2022 at the age of 93 years. Frank’s career in pharmacy began as …
COVID booster reignites pay parity calls
Discrepancies in the remuneration models for COVID-19 vaccines administered by different health professionals needs to be addressed, a pharmacy leader believes. With all Australians aged 18 years and older …
Avoid pregabalin during pregnancy: TGA
“Risk of major congenital malformations” prescribers warned as drug moved to pregnancy Category D The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has strengthened its warnings around epilepsy and pain drug pregabalin for …
Blaze guts town’s only pharmacy
An electrical fault in a power board is being blamed for igniting a blaze that has caused hundreds of thousands worth of damage to a rural pharmacy. Residents in the …
World news wrapup: 9 February 2023
Tainted drugs sold in Mexican pharmacies; calls to scrap NZ script copayment; Canadian college slaps chain with largest ever fine Mexico: The Los Angeles Times reports that pharmacies in northwestern …
‘Our members understand the impacts of paracetamol poisoning.’
Pharmacists working in hospital have a real understanding of the consequences of paracetamol poisoning, says the SHPA Last month (3 February), the Therapeutic Goods Administration announced its interim decision to …