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Drug theft included human growth hormone
A pharmacist convicted of drug theft has been reprimanded and her provisional registration cancelled for professional misconduct Sara Shadi Kazeme, a provisionally registered pharmacist, was convicted in the Magistrates’ Court …
Failure to maintain professional boundaries
A dentist has been reprimanded and disqualified for 12 months after a pharmacist reported him to AHPRA In 2016, a pharmacist made a notification to AHPRA regarding the dentist’s prescription …
Reprimand over missing S8s
A former pharmacist has been disqualified from applying for registration to practise the profession for 12 months, after he “put his head in the sand” over oxycodone discrepancies The Melbourne …
Jail time over poisoning
A pharmacist has reportedly been handed a one-year sentence for selling two women weedkiller A 71-year-old pharmacist from a town in Belgium has been sentenced to 12 months in prison …
Reprimand over cocaine conduct
A former pharmacist and aspiring doctor has been reprimanded after he had very pure pharmaceutical cocaine sent to his employer’s pharmacy The pharmacist used his employment to dishonestly obtain cocaine …
World news wrapup: 27 June 2019
Free scripts from NZ’s Woollies pharmacies; pharmacist goes viral after helping street dog; US pharmacist sentenced for drug theft and firearm offences Tauranga, New Zealand: Three supermarket pharmacies – owned …
‘Remorse and contrition’ after importing ice pipes
The Pharmacy Board has published details about a Western Australian pharmacist reprimanded after unlawfully importing more than 2,000 ice pipes As well as being a registered pharmacist, Hoang-Nam Nguyen was …
Struck off over professional misconduct
A pharmacist who claimed the Pharmacy Board had a personal vendetta to cause him ‘character assassination on a world scale’ has had his registration cancelled Emson Nyoni, who owned and …
World news wrapup: 20 June 2019
Pharmacy chain unfairly treated in Italian Mafia story; Lloydspharmacy apologises after woman denied emergency contraception; Canadian town in push to quit smoking for a day UK: A current affairs program …
Former pharmacy student sentenced for terrorist act
A former University of Sydney pharmacy student has been jailed for 36 years after he stabbed a man multiple times On 10 September 2016, in a driveway in Minto in …
Legal win for Chemist Warehouse
A senior Chemist Warehouse manager has had a win in Federal Court, with the finding that his offer to buy a pharmacy described as having a “special and singular attraction” …