Urgent recall ordered for toy bath ducks sold in hundreds of pharmacies A toy bath duck set sold in many Australian pharmacies has been urgently withdrawn from sale, and made …

Expanded 60-day dispensing list includes medication for the treatment of conditions such as diabetes, migraine and bipolar disorder  Prescribers can now issue prescriptions for two months’ supply of an additional …

Former Guild president wants medicinal cannabis to be included on PBS The former national president of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, George Tambassis, says his role on the board of …

Authorities have swooped on a Melbourne pharmacy this week, seizing semaglutide, peptides and human growth hormones – and they’ve warned pharmacists to be careful about compounding The Therapeutic Goods Administration, …

Negotiations for the Eighth Community Pharmacy Agreement (8CPA) are set to continue as the Guild and government inch closer to an acceptable deal  Pharmacy owners are cautiously optimistic that the …

CAPS seeks to ramp up pressure on Labor after 8CPA implementation date was missed  The Dunkley by-election will provide pharmacists with an opportunity to voice their frustration at the government’s …

Newsagents’ “cosy systems of exclusivity” watched by pharmacy as OTC medications head to supermarkets…and should drugs be distributed only through doctors? Welcome to April 1979… Our April 1979 issue opens …

US cyber attack impacts pharmacies; NZ dispensing error saw loratadine laced with haloperidol; UK pharmacists burning out New Zealand: The Health and Disability Commissioner has found a pharmacy breached the …

Therese Lambert has been named the winner of this year’s Rhonda White Leadership Award Lambert was honoured during the TerryWhite Chemmart ELEVATE conference, which saw nearly 800 delegates from around …

Patients should not have to pay for unsubsidised morphine products brought in to manage the current shortage, says the SHPA Yesterday (28 February 2023), the AJP reported that the Therapeutic …

Transaction fees linked to vaccination services and Project Stop are set to boost MedAdvisor’s revenue  Medication management platform provider, MedAdvisor Solutions, is set to introduce new transaction fees for a …

“Australia and Japan both have rapidly ageing populations but appear to have very different patterns of painkiller use,” says a pharmacist who has just examined how health professionals from both …