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Opinion: Tax deductibility of pharmacy conference costs
Stuart Gardner
In today's feature Stuart Gardner provides us with an overview of the main issues to consider when assessing the tax deductibility of costs associated with attending various CE activities. More > premium

New appointments to NPS Board
Several changes have been made to the National Prescribing Service Board. More....

Alendronate may cause your femur to snap
The US media is full of reports about a new study which says that a number of women who have been on the medicine for more than five years are fracturing their femurs. More....

Images of APP
As usual APP was a colouful affair and lots of old friends dropped by the AusPharm stand to say g'day. More....

Big pharma donates million for Indigenous health
Medicines Australia will make a $1m donation to the Jimmy Little Foundation at a Parliament House function tonight to help improve indigenous health outcomes in remote communities. More....

AusPharm CE: RGH E-Bulletin Digest No. 21
Click here to do this Continuing Education activity. Or, if you prefer, you might like to take a look at our other CE activities here . More....

AusPharmList Post of the day

Re: Over-counter painkillers can be risky
Peter Bayly
Angus Thompson wrote:

"I've created my own C&A label to add to all dispensed NSAIDs, to support the verbal counselling offered. Maybe we should be pressing the "powers that be" to make a warning of this type routinely recommended to try and reduce the risks from doubled up NSAIDs?"
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So how about C/A label # 10b reworded to read:

DO NOT TAKE OTHER NSAIDs
like aspirin & ibuprofen while
being treated with this medicine

or something similar?

Peter B More...