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Mixed results on vax acceptance
Which demographic groups are likely to be resistant to receiving the COVID-19 vaccine? Australian research provides some guidance Will enough people be willing to receive a COVID-19 vaccination to ensure …
TGA fines Chemist Warehouse
Chemist Warehouse and My Chemist have been handed more than $53,000 worth of infringement notices over advertising on their websites The TGA announced this week that it has issued four …
Protection paramount
The National Boards and Ahpra are seeking public feedback on revised regulatory principles for the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme The regulatory principles encourage a responsive, risk-based approach to regulation …
From eggs to cells
Australia’s first cell-based influenza vaccine hits the market A new flu vaccine technology is now available to Australian pharmacies and general practices for the first time, with Seqirus announcing availability …
Locally produced jab now available
More than 830,000 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines manufactured in Melbourne will be released for supply The TGA has approved release of the first four batches of the Melbourne-manufactured AstraZeneca vaccine, totalling …
Filling in the gaps
COVID-19 forced pharmacy to successfully “respond and innovate” but pandemic tensions may lead to medication misinformation, pharmacy leader says During the last twelve months, pharmacy has responded and innovated in …
Pharmacist’s fraud ‘unusually sinister,’ says sentencing judge
A pharmacist has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison after she orchestrated a Ponzi scheme which targeted family members and local residents Natalie P. Cochran, a former …
Poll: Pay, quitting and recommending pharmacy
Would you recommend community pharmacy as a career… and are you thinking of quitting? Tell us in our latest poll This month the AJP reported on new data from the …
Clozapine implicated in accidental deaths
More than half of fatal drug poisonings involving the antipsychotic clozapine are unintentional, according to new research based on Australian coronial data Among fatal drug poisonings reported in Australia over …
Change afoot at the Queensland Guild
Chris Owen is now Acting President and Amanda Seeto Acting Vice-President and Acting National Councillor for the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, Queensland Branch The newly elected President of the Pharmacy …
Pharmacist error lands patient in ED
A pharmacist accidentally gave a patient almost seven times his usual dose of methadone, then allowed him to drive home afterwards A registered pharmacist from New Zealand has been ordered …
Deception allowed doc to be in ‘two places at once’
A doctor has been reprimanded and disqualified from practice after he allowed an unqualified and unregistered person to act as a doctor The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal found that …