GP fears she was duped by a dodgy pharmacy after prescribing off-label semaglutide
A GP who unwittingly directed a patient to a questionable compounding pharmacy for semaglutide says it all began with an unsolicited fax sent to her…
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Pharmacist used names of dead doctors in plan to supply unproven medicines
A pharmacist used dead doctors’ details to create patient dispensing records for an unapproved medication that she planned to sell at “considerable cost” in her…
TGA wants to ban compounded semaglutide because of safety concerns
The TGA wants to ban pharmacists from compounding their own versions of semaglutide based on safety concerns about the “commercial scale” of operations. The watchdog has proposed…
Revealed: 16 antibiotics pharmacists will prescribe in Qld’s next trial
Cefalexin and mupirocin are just two of the antibiotics that Queensland pharmacists will prescribe under the state’s expanded pharmacy prescribing pilot this year. Pharmacists will…
Prescribing protocols for Vic pharmacists treating skin conditions finally revealed
The Victorian Government has finally named shingles and psoriasis as the skin conditions that pharmacists will start treating in March as part of its pharmacy…
Doctor says she may have been ‘fooled’ by a compounded semaglutide provider
A doctor is warning GPs to be careful when prescribing compounded semaglutide, saying both she and her prescribing doctor appear to have been taken in…
Ozempic maker warns doctors against writing compounded scripts due to ‘potential safety risks’
Semaglutide maker Novo Nordisk has hit back at GPs prescribing compounded versions of its blockbuster drug. Semaglutide (Ozempic) was already under scrutiny for mass off-label…
Pharmacists prescribe contraceptive pill to 1500 women across two state trials
Pharmacists in NSW and Victoria have supplied the contraceptive pill to more than 1500 women as part of state-based pharmacy prescribing trials. More than 800…
GP clinic’s compounded semaglutide scripts raise TGA alarm
The worldwide semaglutide shortage has sparked an ’emerging trend’ of telehealth platforms offering to prescribe locally compounded versions of the drug to treat obesity, the…
Pharmacy corporates’ $9 billion merger strikes fear into the guild’s heart
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia has sounded the alarm over a planned merger between Chemist Warehouse and Sigma Healthcare, which would see the pharmacy giants…
