Business plan teams hit quarter finals
Fourteen pharmacy student teams have progressed through to the quarter final round of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s annual National Student Business Plan Competition. The competition is an Australia-wide challenge …
$22b health commitment lauded
Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia CEO Kristin Michaels, has congratulated the NSW Minister for Health, Jillian Skinner, for delivering a record $22 billion commitment to healthcare and hospitals in …
Victorian Govt highlights pharmacist pertussis vaccination
The Victorian Government is encouraging consumers to protect themselves from whooping cough and the flu, highlighting that they can now receive flu and whooping cough vaccinations from their local pharmacist …
Forum: Dermatology conference attack on pharmacy
“There was an awful lot of condemnation of the pharmacists as we apparently undermine alll of the good work that the dermatologists and GPs perform as we tell patients not …
Pharmacists poorly equipped on nutrition, conference told
Pharmacists are poorly equipped to dispense nutrition-based advice, a UK conference has heard. Delegates to the “Food. The Forgotten Medicine” conference, organised by the College of Medicine, were told that …
How to stop your patients becoming customers
When is a patient not a patient? writes Mouhamad Zoghbi When trying to maintain sustainable pharmacy profits, it’s clear that reacting to your competitors’ discounting tactics is very expensive. As …
“Contemptible, outrageous and unethical” doctor’s 3-year ban
Sydney GP prescribed oxycodone and diazepam at potentially fatal amounts to a single patient over years Dr Ghee Hong Michael Tan, 59, has been found guilty of professional misconduct for prescribing a patient excessive …
Naloxone progress not a let-down: Pricolo
Angelo Pricolo, the Brunswick pharmacist who successfully applied to the TGA to have the life-saving medicine naloxone downscheduled to S3, has expressed surprise at an ABC story claiming that the …
Geelong pharmacy raided for cash, medicines
Police are investigating a raid on a pharmacy in Geelong over the weekend, in which a thief escaped with money and medicines. The Geelong Advertiser reports that the thief left …
Pharmacists can have key role in antimicrobial stewardship
All health professionals – including pharmacists – as well as consumers have a responsibility to reduce the dependence of antibiotics in Australia, says PSA. New research shows Australia continues to …
Research Roundup
Debbie Rigby takes a look at research news from around the world Statin-associated Side Effects Statins are associated with various statin-associated symptoms (SAS), including statin-associated muscle symptoms (SAMS), diabetes mellitus …
Heinz taken to court over toddler foods
Products that claim to be healthy contain over 60% sugar, alleges the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission The ACCC has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court against the Australian arm …