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Balance needed on pay-later services
Pharmacy groups including TerryWhite Chemmart and Chemist Warehouse have joined a trial of Afterpay, prompting criticism from some experts Following its successful expansion into the dental and optometry sectors, Afterpay …
How many pharmacists are on the ‘gravy train’?
An analysis has looked into how many pharmacists receive money from the pharmaceutical industry A new analysis of pharmaceutical industry payments has shown that pharmacists accounted for only 2.9% of …
Service recognised
A number of leaders of pharmacy have been rewarded for a lifetime of service in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours list Former Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) national president Warwick …
Staying the same
Mometasone to remain a mostly prescription product after downscheduling application is knocked back TGA regulators have rejected a proposal to move the corticosteroid mometasone to become a Schedule 3 product. …
Widen RTM scope to all S3, S4 meds: coroner
A coroner has recommended making the ACT’s DORA system mandatory for all prescribers and pharmacists, after the death of a woman from multi-drug toxicity Forty-eight-year-old Lauren Maree Johnstone died in …
Now is the time for investment
Medicines misuse and misadventure in Australia results in 250,000 hospital admissions and 400,000 emergency department presentations, at an alarming cost of $1.4 billion annually “This does not include the costs …
The week in review
Pharmacy statistics made the news this week, as we found out about 10% of incidents reported to PDL, one-in-four cosmetics buyers’ habits and the takeup of My Health Record Researchers …
Popping out
Pharmacies to dispense product used as a sex aid following TGA ruling The Therapeutic Goods Administrations’ scheduling committee has recommended some of a range of products currently used as sex …
Pharmacist OCP prescribing ‘naive and potentially dangerous’
A GP and academic has penned a piece in The Conversation saying that pharmacist prescribing of the oral contraceptive pill risks women’s health for several reasons “In bypassing their GPs …
Paracetamol on the move
Modified release paracetamol upscheduled to S3, but GP groups express concern about the move Modified release paracetamol are set to be re-scheduled as S3 (Pharmacist Only) products according to the …
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 …