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Wednesday 31 Jul 2013 PHARMACYDAILY.COM.AU

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Seniors card changeA new-look Commonwealth

Seniors Health Card is set to roll out

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receive new cards from August.

Pharmacies which use images of

the cards

are being

asked to

email the

Departmentof Human

Services for

updated

versions of

the pictures

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Cap proposal safety fearsQuAlity and safety ofhealth delivery in Australia

have become the focus of the

Pharmacy Guild of Australia and

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Australia who have united in

their call for the Government to

abolish plans to impose a $2000

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expenses.

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Cap campaign which represents

more than 1.6 million professionalsacross Australia and met in

Canberra yesterday.

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overturn the proposal on the basis

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improving health quality standards.

We are all urging the more

than 1.6 million professionals we

represent to go out and speak to

their local members and candidates

in their electorates to overturn this

bad-policy decision.There are very real dangers

that this proposal could have an

impact on the health outcomes

of the community if health

professionals are not abreast of the

latest techniques, medicines and

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Gaviscon for heartburn

todAys issue ofPharmacy Dailyas three pages of news including

our regular Health, Beauty and New

Products feature, as well as a full

page from Gaviscon on pag fr.

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Supermarket in-salts

too many of Australias everydayfoods sold in supermarkets are

overloaded with salt causing

unnecessary deaths from heart

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spokesperson, Kellie-Ann Jolly

said, Australian adults are each

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need. Children also eat more than

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These days, most of the salt weconsume is not added at the table,

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government to commit to a

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SHPA $5000 grantthe Society of Hospital

Pharmacists of Australia has

nnounced a research grant valued

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linical audit.The scope is broad, but should

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of the applicants work site and

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New 5CPA email addthe Department of Human

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Community Pharmacy Agreement(5CPA) enquiry email address has

changed.

Pharmacists are advised to

update their records to

sa.guild.govt.programs@

humanservices.gov.au
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New functionality for

eHealth recordsthe governments eHealth

ecord system now features a new

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which shows in greater detail

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prescribed and dispensed to a

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by pcp hhc

providers, either via the provider

portal on the eHealth website or

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www.ehealth.gov.au.

Preventive Health reportthe Au NP Hh Acy h

State of

Prevenve Health report, which

aims to give a comprehensive

overview of current health

challenges facing Australians in

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currently underway in Australia

to reduce the key risk factors for

chronic disease, with areas covered

including obesity and physicalcy, bcc u h

harmful use of alcohol.

Key issues raised include an

increase in overweight and obese

children and adults over the past

few years, as well as widespread

levels of harmful alcohol

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The report also highlights

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becoming a registered profession in

Australia, as well as work by Health

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data on selected allied health

professionals, including those

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pharmacists, oral and mental health

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The full report can be accessed onthe ANPHA site by CliCKiNG heRe.

1800 003 938

[email protected]

* Terms and conditions apply.

Cancer Meds FutureNew advances in cancer

medicines may not be made

vailable to Australian cancer

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air manner in the future according

o a new Medicines Australia-

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Economics.

Presented this week to theountrys leading cancer specialists

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Au (MOGA) Au Scc

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hallenges currently faced and

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o emerge.

It reveals that although Australia

s the cancer capital of the world,

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between the cancer burden

of disease and healthcare

expenditure.In 2003 cancer received 13% of

otal healthcare expenditure whilst

t was responsible for nearly 20% of

Australias burden of disease.

Yervoy on PBS Aug 1Bristol-Myers Squibb has

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Scheme from tomorrow 01 Aug

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malignant melanoma (unresectable

III IV).

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advances for advanced melanoma

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therapy to show a long-term

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Advanced melanoma claims

the lives of approximately 1,500Australians each year.

NPS on Xareltowith cu X

(rivaroxaban) set to be listed

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talk to their doctor before stopping

or making any changes to their

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the risk of harmful blood clots that

cause stroke.

It will also be subsidised for

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blood clot in the lung.

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the dominant role of warfarin with

simpler dosing and no need for INR

blood tests.

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DISPENSARYCORNER

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rudimentary teeth out of what

must be the most unlikely of

sources, human urine.

The results, published in Cell

Regeneraon Journal, showed

that urine could be used as a

source of stem cells that in turn

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like structures.

The research team fromh Guzhu Iu f

Biomedicine and Health hopes

the technique could be developed

into a way of replacing lost teeth.

However, Prof Chris Mason, a

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College London, said urine was a

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sources, there are very few cells

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of turning them into stem cells is

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developed a new electronic tooth

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detect whether a wearer is

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The killjoy gadget monitors

the movement of the jaw, and is

being touted as possibly enabling

physicians to keep track of their

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- and for those on strict orders

to quit smoking the device could

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volunteer testers having the

sensor somewhat awkwardly

implanted on a tooth which was

connected using wires to an

external power source and a data

logging device - but eventually

its envisaged that it would have

c by hdata wirelessly.

The researchers found that

the prototypes could accurately

detect what the wearers were

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Most patients with heartburn dont excrete

excess acid.2 In fact, up to 80% of reflux

disease (GORD) episodes are caused

by transient relaxations of the lower

oesophageal sphincter (LOS). This allowsacid, pepsin and bile to reflux into the

oesophagus and cause pain and damage.2-4

Gaviscon starts to soothe reflux

symptoms within four minutes

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A PHYSICAL BARRIER

SCIENTIFICALLY

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