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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Let pharmacists take the lead: PSA
This week’s report into polypharmacy highlights the need for regular medicine reviews for older Australians — a task best performed by pharmacists, says the PSA The report, from the University …
Polypharmacy on the rise
The number of Australians aged 70-plus taking at least five medicines a day has crept up to nearly a million – and pharmacists are in a good position to help …
Fluoridated water not the TGA’s remit
The TGA has issued a clarification saying that state and territory governments will continue to be responsible for regulating fluoride in tap water “Legislative amendments made on 11 July 2019 …
The dismissal
Whether a pharmacy employee was unfairly dismissed involved the timing of sick leave as well as a paid employment trial In March 2019, the former employee of a Queensland TerryWhite …
What’s happening at the PSA?
The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia is undergoing an “operational transformation” amid rumours of staff layoffs A number of anonymous pharmacy sector sources have hinted at staff redundancies at the PSA, …