2012 25th Jan. News Update Quick Look!

Main WHO News Release: 1.India Records One Year Without Polio Cases  2.(Last Call)!!!! 2012WPPF/FIP Travel Grant scholarship application is due on 31st Jan. News Updates: 1.Ten Chinese Medicines Importation Will Be Inspected 2.Department of…

Ten Chinese Medicines Importation Will Be Inspected

Reference:The Pharmacist Weekly No.1753 Original Link:Ten Chinese Medicines Importation Will Be Inspected Translator:Ting-Yi Liu Committee on Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy, Department of Health (DOH), held the convention of the border management…

Department of Health Commend Thirty-Two Internal Pharmaceutical Manufacturers For Updating to PIC/S

Reference: The Pharmacist Weekly No.1752 Original Link: Department of Health Commend Thirty-Two Internal Pharmaceutical Manufacturers For Updating to PIC/S Translator:Ting-Yi Liu In order to ensure the safety of public drug usage, Department…

A Brief Talk About Taking Gastrointestinal Medicine Concepts

Article/ Reporter from Chiayi County Lin Qitai Origin : The Pharmacist Weekly Translator: Yun- Ting Wang (Alice Wang) Link: A Brief Talk About Taking Gastrointestinal Medicine Concepts The drugs acting on gastrointestinal are so called gastrointestinal…

TFDA Kind Reminder For Not Buying Any Weight-Control Drugs Especially Within Chinese Dragon New Year

25th Jan, 2012 Translator: Miranda Liang As the chinese Dragon New Year's coming, it's getting easier to add weight. Part of publics might think about going on diet,but the kind reminder from Department of Health(DOH) for the publics not buy…

Flu Threat Expected to Heighten as Holiday Nears

January 21, 2012 Three more people in Taiwan died from flu complications yesterday, raising the total number of flu-related deaths in the country since last July to 31. One of the three most recent victims was a 34-year-old Kaohsiung resident…

India Marks Milestone of a Year Without New Polio Cases

January 14, 2012  NEW DELHI -- India is about to hit a milestone in its battle to eradicate the polio virus with no new cases reported in the past year, the country's health minister said on Thursday, a dramatic drop from being the country…

Antipsychotics in Focus at Offshore Refresher

19 January 2012 To many pharmacists and GPs, antipsychotics are something of a mystery. But for pharmacists attending the PSA offshore Refresher Conference this year, help is at hand. Professor Andrew McLachlan, Education Director of the Refresher…

Mental Health Roadmap a Good First Step

18 January 2012  The Government’s draft Ten Year Plan for Mental Health is a welcome first step in helping to address what is Australia’s third most prevalent health problem after heart disease and cancer. However, Vice-President of the…

PGA Newsletter – Vol.2 No.1 18th Jan. 2012

18th January, 2012 A study by NPS in collaboration with the University of Melbourne —published in the Medical Journal of Australia — has provided new insights into how people use medicines on a daily basis and highlights that the use of…