TGA to Cancel Four Prescription Pain-killers from 1 March 2012
Australia22 November 2011 The TGA intends to cancel all pain-killers containing dextropropoxyphene - Capadex, Di-Gesic, Doloxene and Paradex - from the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG), from 1 March 2012. Following a review of the available…
Revised Arrangements for the Efficient Funding of Chemotherapy Medicines
AustraliaFrom 1 December 2011 a new initiative will be introduced with the aim to reduce PBS expenditure on chemotherapy medicines used in the treatment of cancer and administered through intravenous infusion or injection. This will result in changes…
PGA Newsletter – Vol.1 No.29 November 2011
AustraliaGuild mourns passing of former National Councillor The Pharmacy Guild is mourning the passing last week of former National Councillor from South Australia, Barry Schultz (pictured left with Guild National President Kos Sclavos and Federal Minister…
Continued Dispensing in Best Interests of Patients
Australia24 November 2011 The move towards continued dispensing of medicines by pharmacists in defined circumstances will deliver better health outcomes for Australian consumers and should be supported by Federal Parliament. Continued dispensing is one…
Consumers Forum Mixed Up on Pharmacy Agreement
Australia27 November 2011 The Consumers Health Forum has published an analysis of the Fifth Community Pharmacy Agreement which welcomed the Agreement and applauded the level of consultation with consumers. The analysis, published in May 2010 at the time…
PGA Newsletter – Vol.1 No.28 November 2011
AustraliaAnnual Dinner address Community pharmacists are the essential link in our health system between doctors, pharmaceutical manufacturers, hospitals – of course Government fits in there somewhere! – and the people we all aim to serve, the millions…
Country Report 2011 – JAPAN
JapanCountry Report – JAPAN -By Japan Pharmaceutical Association Date of reporting： 27/09/2011 Period of report： February 2011- August 2011 Prepared by： Japan Pharmaceutical Association Section 1: Current Issues (e.g. health care…
Pharmacists There to Help Hay Fever Sufferers
AustraliaThe role pharmacists can play in helping to manage hay fever has been highlighted by new figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) showing that about 3.1 million Australians, or 15% of the population, suffer from the…
Pharmacists Ready to Work Closely With Any Senate Inquiry
AustraliaThe Pharmaceutical Society of Australia will work cooperatively with all stakeholders in any Senate inquiry into the Community Pharmacy Agreements process to ensure the best possible outcomes for the community, the pharmacy profession and Australia’s…
Protested against Improperly Adjust the Pharmaceutical Benefit that would Deprive of the Interests
TaiwanPharmaceutical Industries went to the Executive Yuan, and had made solemn protest to the President Wu Den-yih. The 7th reduction of Pharmaceutical Benefit for National Health Insurance may compel about two hundred medicines to withdraw from…