accidents
World news wrapup: 7 November 2019
Pharmacist sentenced over huge pain cream fraud; mail order pharmacy sued over patient death in landmark case; economic evidence for “hub and spoke” queried Hattiesburg, Mississippi: A pharmacist has been …
World news wrapup: 31 October 2019
Former pharmacist jailed for filming colleagues in bathroom; NZ pharmacists to be paid to deliver MMR; Mississippi county to be left without a pharmacy New Zealand: Minister of Health Julie …
Expensive pizza for pharmacist under the influence
A pharmacist has had his driver’s licence suspended after he crashed his car into three parked vehicles while more than four times the blood alcohol limit The Warrnambool Standard reports …
Driver flattens pharmacy beauty room
Staff and customers at the Yarrawonga TerryWhite Chemmart had a narrow escape when a customer drove through a front window At around four-thirty in the afternoon last Thursday, an elderly …
World news wrapup: 7 September 2017
Sacked for poo delivery; pharmacist killed by grenade in Kenya; UK pharmacy rolls out virtual GP consult Limerick, Ireland: A medicines delivery driver has had his unfair dismissal application knocked …
World news wrapup: 6 July 2017
Scottish pharmacy to sell alcohol; US pharmacist jailed for 30 years; second car crashes through Canadian pharmacy window Fife, Scotland: A village pharmacist has been granted approval to sell alcohol …
World News Wrapup: 8 June 2017
Ohio sues opioid manufacturers, Albuquerque Walgreens in strife over misoprostol refusal, Canadian woman falls through pharmacy trapdoor Albuquerque, New Mexico: An Walgreens pharmacy has been accused of discrimination after an …
Fidget spinners examined after children injured
Consumer protection in WA is launching an investigation into fidget spinners following reports of injuries They’re the latest craze amongst school kids and have been marketed as an aid for …
Labels don’t reduce medicine-related crashes: study
A study examining the effectiveness of colour-graded pictogram labels has concluded that they don’t work to reduce medicine-related traffic crashes. The study, published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, …
Narrow miss for pharmacy assistant
A Gold Coast pharmacy assistant narrowly escaped serious injury over the weekend when a man crashed his hatchback through the pharmacy’s front window. The man, aged in his 70s, may …
Pharmacist helps injured woman
When Toronto, NSW pharmacist Kylie Hindmarsh heard that a lady had fallen down outside the shop and split her head on the footpath, she rushed outside to help. On the …
Rest stops won’t cure driver fatigue: Sleep Health Foundation
Many Australians wrongly believe their tiredness behind the wheel can be completely cured with a rest stop, say specialists at the Sleep Health Foundation. “That’s a dangerous assumption and one …