Weekend Education Feast

5 Aoril 2012 The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s exciting new pharmacy professional development and practice support event will feature weekend programs allowing delegates to make the most of the educational opportunities being presented. …

Responsible Dispensing of Generic Medicines

4 April 2012 Reports that pharmacists may possibly be dispensing a ”pharmacy-preferred brand” of generic drugs without proper consultation with the patient would be contravening the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s Guidelines on Brand…

PGA-Newsletter Vol.2, No.12,4 April,2012

A report in the Sydney Morning Herald today accuses some community pharmacies of seeking to “impose” generic medicines on elderly patients.The Pharmacy Guild would not support any pharmacist imposing generic medicines on any patient –…

PGA-Newsletter Vol 2.No.11,28 March,2012

A new survey from the National Prescribing Service (NPS) has found that 57 per cent of Australians report they have made a mistake with their medicines in the past 12 months. In a survey of 1205 people, 44 per cent said they had forgotten to…

Community Pharmacies Are Responsible Employers

2 April 2012 The Pharmacy Guild of Australia is confident that the overwhelming majority of communitypharmacies act in good faith to comply fully with the Pharmacy Industry Award 2010. The Guildurges its members to pay all employees according…

Medicines Partnership of Australia

23 March,2012 The pharmaceutical industry has worked well together to ensure continuity of supplyof important Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) medicines at the time ofsignificant price changes on 1 April. Many manufacturers, wholesalers…

2012 WPPF/FIP Travel Scholarship Winners are Announced!

                  2012 WPPF/FIP Travel Scholarship Winners are Announced!                                                    The President, John Ware, and members of the Executive of the Western Pacific…

Quick Take (03/25/12)

Main News: 1.2012 WPPF/FIP Travel Scholarship Winners are Announced! 2.WHO-More evidence and better diagnostics needed before redefining severe forms of drug-resistant TB  3.WHO-Childhood Tuberculosis Neglected, Despite Available Remedie…

Childhood Tuberculosis Neglected, Despite Available Remedie

Childhood TB is a hidden epidemic 21 MARCH 2012 | GENEVA - Tuberculosis (TB) often goes undiagnosed in children from birth to 15 years old because they lack access to health services - or because the health workers who care for them are unprepared…

More Evidence and Better Diagnostics Needed Before Redefining Severe Forms of Drug-Resistant TB

23 MARCH 2012 | GENEVA - Reports of tuberculosis (TB) cases with severe patterns of drug resistance are increasing, said experts who attended a WHO meeting in Geneva on 21-22 March. Participants stressed that the emergence of drug resistance…