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Jack Perkins to keep diabetes awareness momentum
After its successful 2018 campaign, Amcal Pharmacy has announced it has teamed up with Mobil 1 MEGA Racing Supercars driver Jack Perkins for another term. Last year saw Mr Perkins …
World news wrapup: 18 July 2019
France to stop subsidising homeopathy; NZ Pharmacist of the Year lauded; cheaper medicines change Ohio pharmacy landscape France: French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn has announced that homeopathy will no longer …
Seven benefits pharmacists bring to primary carers
A new study has looked at how pharmacy delivery of comprehensive medication management can help improve the carers’ work life The study, published in the Journal of the American Board …
Is embedding non-dispensing pharmacists the ‘wrong’ approach?
Can non-dispensing pharmacists play a crucial role such as prescribing and advising GPs… or should this role be filled by community pharmacists instead Pharmacist researcher Dr Janet Sluggett, an NHMRC …
An Australian first
Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) is the first medicine to have additional indications registered on the ARTG via the TGA’s provisional approval pathway “Pembrolizumab’s indications now include the treatment of patients with metastatic …
‘There is so much more rural community pharmacists could be doing.’
A national ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to delivering pharmacy care discriminates against rural and remote communities, patients and pharmacies, says new group In the lead-up to 7CPA negotiations, Rural Pharmacy Network Australia …
Why do GPs ignore pharmacist advice?
Over half of pharmacist recommendations were not actioned by GPs in this randomised trial Researchers from the universities of Bristol, Bath, Reading, Sydney and Laval have examined the impact of …
20 million miss out
More than 10% of the world’s children are not being vaccinated against preventable diseases such as measles, diphtheria and tetanus, new data show The World Health Organization and UNICEF’s new …
Traumatised pharmacist misappropriated morphine, codeine
A pharmacist has been ordered not to work more than 40 hours a week, after she took medicines from a hospital in 2014 For 10 weeks in 2014, the pharmacist …
New pharmacy student president announced
AJP chats with Erin Cooper from Charles Sturt University, who has been chosen to lead her peers over the next year Twenty-one-year-old Erin Cooper has been elected as National Australian …
Call for pharmacist OCP provision in bulk-billing drought
The oral contraceptive pill should be available over-the-counter, writes a mainstream media journalist – and a Guild spokesperson hopes access could soon be easier Cassandra Morgan, who has recently moved …
Changing of the guard
Anthony White steps down as CEO of TerryWhite Chemmart TerryWhite Chemmart CEO Anthony White announced on Tuesday that he will step down after 11 years at the helm of one …