feeds from pharmacies.com.au http://pharmacies.com.au/rss/ en-au http://pharmacies.com.au/rss/ http://pharmacies.com.au/static/campfire/layouts/images/omg-logo-small.png http://www.pharmacies.com.au/news/2011/3/29/sigma-starts-turnaround/ Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST news AFTER two years of hefty losses at Sigma Pharmaceuticals, Mark Hooper is confident he can return the ailing drugs wholesaler to profitability.Since assuming the chief executive role in September, Mr Hooper has cleared Sigma's multimillion-dollar debt and halved its full-year loss to $235.4 million.Sigma's shares soared more than 15 per cent yesterday after the announcement of the full-year results, which included a special 15¢ dividend. The shares settled to close up 4.5&A ...

AFTER two years of hefty losses at Sigma Pharmaceuticals, Mark Hooper is confident he can return the ailing drugs wholesaler to profitability.

http://www.pharmacies.com.au/news/2011/3/29/sigma-can-see-beyond-loss-to-better-days/ Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST news AFTER two years of hefty losses, Mark Hooper is confident he can make the ailing drugs wholesaler Sigma Pharmaceuticals profitable again.Since taking the chief executive role in September Mr Hooper has cleared its hefty debts and halved its full-year loss to $235.4 million.Sigma's shares soared more than 15 per cent yesterday following the results for the year, which also included a special 15¢ dividend. Some of that initial rise was dissipated and the shares closed 4.5&At ...

AFTER two years of hefty losses, Mark Hooper is confident he can make the ailing drugs wholesaler Sigma Pharmaceuticals profitable again.

http://www.pharmacies.com.au/news/2011/3/26/pan-bungle-cost-tops-122m/ Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST news THE cost of the federal government's botched handling ofnow-defunct complementary medicines manufacturer Pan Pharmaceuticals has topped $122.5 million following the settlement of a major class action yesterday.Federal Court Justice Geoffrey Flick approved a $67.5 million compensation package to be paid to 162 creditors, distributors and retailers who suffered loss and damage when Pan collapsed in 2003.The settlement ends an eight-year saga that began when the government's Therapeutic Goods Admin ...

THE cost of the federal government's botched handling of

http://www.pharmacies.com.au/news/2011/3/26/pan-debacle-yields-further-675m-payout/ Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST news THE cost of the federal government's botched handling of the now-defunct complementary medicines manufacturer Pan Pharmaceuticals has topped $122.5 million following the settlement of a class action yesterday.The Federal Court Justice Geoffrey Flick approved a $67.5 million compensation package to be paid to a group of 162 creditors, distributors and retailers who suffered loss and damage when Pan collapsed in 2003.The settlement brings to a close an eight-year saga that began when the governmen ...

THE cost of the federal government's botched handling of the now-defunct complementary medicines manufacturer Pan Pharmaceuticals has topped $122.5 million following the settlement of a class action yesterday.

http://www.pharmacies.com.au/news/2011/3/20/fear-on-methadone-doctor-shortage/ Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST news THE number of Victorians dying from drug overdoses or suicide will rise if more doctors are not recruited to treat heroin addicts and tackle a crisis in the state's methadone prescribing service, drug experts warn.An audit of the system found the number of people receiving methadone and buprenorphine has risen by 15 per cent to more than 13,000 in the past four years. In the period, the number of GPs prescribing the opiate-based heroin replacement drugs fell by the same percentage, to only 400, ...

THE number of Victorians dying from drug overdoses or suicide will rise if more doctors are not recruited to treat heroin addicts and tackle a crisis in the state's methadone prescribing service, drug experts warn.

http://www.pharmacies.com.au/news/2011/3/12/selfrestraint-in-world-of-excess/ Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST news WE HAVE MET THE ENEMYDaniel AkstScribe, 303pp, $32.95W e have a bottomless appetite for books that analyse who we are, how we live and where we're heading, such as Daniel Akst's We Have Met the Enemy: Self-control in an Age of Excess. Given the rapid rate of social change, perhaps such books are meant to provide anchors of sense and clarity, so that we might feel some agency in a universe where, if you're over 40, it feels as if you're tossing about on an ocean of chaos.If the title seems famili ...

WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY Daniel Akst Scribe, 303pp, $32.95

http://www.pharmacies.com.au/news/2011/3/8/tablets-emerge-as-new-uni-tool/ Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST news A technological revolution is gathering pace in Australia's universities. Geoff Maslen reports. THE 53 students who enrolled in RMIT University's new pharmacy degree program this year are pioneers in more ways than one. Before they began the course last week, each student was given an Apple iPad as a basic tool in the learning process.At Adelaide University, one faculty has been even bolder. The 702 students who signed up for science this year have been given free iPads."I believe the iPad ...

A technological revolution is gathering pace in Australia's universities. Geoff Maslen reports.

http://www.pharmacies.com.au/news/2011/3/7/tv-previews/ Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST news How Earth Made Us Wonders of the Solar System Nurse Jackie Hot Docs: Pray the Devil Back to HellHow Earth Made UsABC1, 8.30pmWe tend to think of human history as being forged primarily by humans. But as this ingenious new series shows, human civilisation has been shaped by awesome natural forces linked to geology, geography and climate. Travelling to Mexico's astonishing Cave of Crystals and the deserts of Israel, host Professor Iain Stewart explores the unlikely attraction that humans have for ...

How Earth Made Us Wonders of the Solar System Nurse Jackie Hot Docs: Pray the Devil Back to Hell

http://www.pharmacies.com.au/news/2011/3/2/bitter-pill-when-politicians-swallow-big-pharmas-spin/ Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST news Politicians always profess great sympathy for people struggling to keep up with the cost of living but often fail to put that sympathy into practice. Economists like to divide the economy into consumers on one side and producers on the other. They believe the economy should be run for the benefit of consumers, not producers. The consumer is supposed to be king.Ostensibly, pollies think the same. But they're always doing deals with producers that allow them to charge higher prices at their custom ...

Politicians always profess great sympathy for people struggling to keep up with the cost of living but often fail to put that sympathy into practice. Economists like to divide the economy into consumers on one side and producers on the other. They believe the economy should be run for the benefit of consumers, not producers. The consumer is supposed to be king.

http://www.pharmacies.com.au/news/2011/2/19/milking-another-right-royal-pain/ Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST news IT HURTS me to write this, truly. I'm so uncomfortable I'm squirming on the bouncy red exercise ball the physiotherapist suggested I use as a desk chair. (Does it work as a chair? Probably, if you're a circus clown or a seal at Sea World.) But at least I know the topic to follow affects 85 per cent of the world's population at some time. Half of you are identifying with me right now. I'm talking about lower back pain.If you doubt this is a popular subject, just Google "Back Pain Sex and Rel ...

The reason for her majesty's pained facial expression becomes clear.

http://www.pharmacies.com.au/news/2011/2/18/column-8/ Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST news Tim Holmes, of Yass, refers us all to the perennial problem of doona covers eating socks and undies in the washing machine - the irritation of such items winding up inside the cover by the time the wash is done. "The solution is simple," Tim insists. "You put them into the doona cover before you wash, and when the cycle is finished, they've all have managed to escape." We pass this on as part of Column 8's ongoing commitment to improving the quality of life of readers. It's t ...

Tim Holmes, of Yass, refers us all to the perennial problem of doona covers eating socks and undies in the washing machine - the irritation of such items winding up inside the cover by the time the wash is done. "The solution is simple," Tim insists. "You put them into the doona cover before you wash, and when the cycle is finished, they've all have managed to escape." We pass this on as part of Column 8's ongoing commitment to improving the quality of life of readers. It's the little things that make a difference, we find.

http://www.pharmacies.com.au/news/2011/2/14/priceline-part-of-priceless-opportunity/ Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST news PRICELINE Pharmacy at 427 Whitehorse Road, Balwyn, is part of Burgess Rawson's portfolio auction 58 to be held at Crown Casino on February 23 from 11am. The property has an 11-metre retail frontage to Whitehorse Road, Balwyn's commercial hub, with a rear entrance and access to a 100-space car park at the rear. The property is expected to sell for up to $3.6 million. Selling agent Jamie Perlinger said the auction would feature diverse properties that would appeal to all categories of investor.

PRICELINE Pharmacy at 427 Whitehorse Road, Balwyn, is part of Burgess Rawson's portfolio auction 58 to be held at Crown Casino on February 23 from 11am. The property has an 11-metre retail frontage to Whitehorse Road, Balwyn's commercial hub, with a rear entrance and access to a 100-space car park at the rear. The property is expected to sell for up to $3.6 million. Selling agent Jamie Perlinger said the auction would feature diverse properties that would appeal to all categories of investor.

http://www.pharmacies.com.au/news/2011/2/12/chemists-fall-foul-of-allco-virus/ Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST news THANKS to a flashy financial structure conjured up in the halcyon days of the Allco Finance boys, some 600 Australian chemists are staring down a bill for $1 million apiece.These are the rough numbers, mind you.The drug wholesaling market in this country is controlled by three players - Sigma, Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API) and the unlisted Symbion - that are paid by the likes of Pfizer and Merck to warehouse drugs and truck them to chemists.It's an ultra-high-volume, low-margin game ...

THANKS to a flashy financial structure conjured up in the halcyon days of the Allco Finance boys, some 600 Australian chemists are staring down a bill for $1 million apiece.

http://www.pharmacies.com.au/news/2011/2/12/gillards-way-through-the-healthcare-maze/ Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST news The Prime Minister hopes her health funding compromise will finally win the support of all state leaders, write Mark Metherell and Phillip Coorey. SHREWD negotiation or backdown?They will be the competing assessments of Julia Gillard's performance if she achieves a national health reform deal with the states tomorrow.The Prime Minister has charted a course that abandons Kevin Rudd's doomed GST clawback, which was to underpin his aim of securing federal dominance over health funding.The threats o ...

The Prime Minister hopes her health funding compromise will finally win the support of all state leaders, write Mark Metherell and Phillip Coorey.

http://www.pharmacies.com.au/news/2011/2/5/love-thy-neighbour/ Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST news NEXT DOOR DINER This old pharmacy is now run by hospitality pros, dispensing food suited to the season, served in style. WHERE AND WHATThere isn't much around this little strip of shops on St Georges Road, which lend this bar-restaurant its status as a hidden gem. The fact that it's keenly designed without actually appearing to be is half the battle. Don't let the neighbourhood vibe fool you, however: Next Door has some serious young hospitality professionals behind it.WHERE TO SITThe redesign o ...

NEXT DOOR DINER This old pharmacy is now run by hospitality pros, dispensing food suited to the season, served in style.

http://www.pharmacies.com.au/news/2011/2/3/thursday-february-10-critics-view/ Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST news ZumboSBS One, 7.30pmPURPORTING to be an observational documentary, this six-part series on dessert-meister Adriano Zumbo (he of the dastardly MasterChef challenges, including the eight-layered V8 vanilla cake) is more advertorial than dispassionate analysis. In fact, at times it almost borders on hagiography as the female narrator breathlessly makes declarations about the man and his work ("He's gone from master patissier to rock-star chef") without any third-party endorsement from exp ...

Zumbo SBS One, 7.30pm Ashes to Ashes ABC1, 8.35pm Grey's Anatomy Channel Seven, 8.30pm The Good Wife Channel Ten, 8.30pm

http://www.pharmacies.com.au/news/2011/2/2/dna-test-now-in-store/ Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST news LONDON. A new kit for testing paternity will go on sale in Boots high street pharmacy stores in Britain.The Assuredna test, which is already available in more than 350 independent pharmacies, gives results in one to five days.For the test, samples of cells are collected from the mouth of the father, child and mother.The cotton swabs are then placed in colour-coded envelopes and posted to the manufacturer, Anglia DNA, for analysis.Both mother and father must sign forms giving their consent for th ...

LONDON. A new kit for testing paternity will go on sale in Boots high street pharmacy stores in Britain.

http://www.pharmacies.com.au/news/2011/1/27/scientist-cultivated-many-interests/ Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST news MARK ROWE 1943-2011When Emeritus Professor Mark Rowe was killed in a cycling accident in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park on New Year's Day, Australia lost one of its finest neuroscientists. Academia, too, lost a person of rare and unshakeable integrity, while his friends lost a convivial, generous and cultivated man.Mark Rowe was a scientist with an enormous body of achievement but also with a profound love of concert music and opera, art and architecture. Sport and athleticism were also importa ...

MARK ROWE 1943-2011

http://www.pharmacies.com.au/news/2010/11/27/gone-for-gold/ Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:00:00 EST news With feverish intent and the latest gadgets, Max Anderson catches the next train to the goldfields of Kalgoorlie. On September 4, the front page of the Kalgoorlie Miner was splashed with a gold nugget weighing 23.26 kilograms. Not ounces. Kilos. A million dollars in gold value alone. It was found by a prospector with a metal detector."I'll bring you back some gold," I promise on the platform of Keswick railway station in Adelaide. My wife eyes my new Minelab GPX 5000 metal detector, wo ...

With feverish intent and the latest gadgets, Max Anderson catches the next train to the goldfields of Kalgoorlie.

http://www.pharmacies.com.au/news/2010/1/13/british-pharmacies-may-be-given-greater-dispensing-rights/ Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST news New proposed legislation from the England Department of Health has applied for British pharmacists and similar medicinal dispensers to be able to fulfil any prescriptions for a branded medicine by dispensing an equivalent generic medicine. The proposed changes are designed to reduce health costs by allowing for generic substitution from several types of medications. This is system is already in operation in Australia, whereas in England pharmacists are restricted to only dispensing ex ...

High UK health costs lead to propose legislation of great flexibility for pharmacists