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Two-for-one prescriptions for patients a ‘kick in the guts’ for Australian pharmacies, guild claims

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The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has already lent support for the campaign, encouraging patients to ask pharmacists how “the proposed changes will impact you as a customer and them as a local small business”. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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Australian pharmacy losses predicted to total $1.2bn over four years under Labor prescription reforms

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Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading. The government says allowing people to buy two months’ worth of medicine for the price of a one-month prescription will save patients up to $180 a year for each medicine.

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Australia’s CSL makes $11.7bn bid for Swiss pharma Vifor

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Australian biotech group CSL has agreed a deal to acquire Swiss drugmaker Vifor Pharma in an all-cash deal that expands its speciality medicines business. Shares in Vifor rose sharply this morning as news of the deal emerged, continuing strong gains since the start of the month when rumours of a deal started to drive the stock upwards.

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: Next big hope for Alzheimer’s might not help most Black patients; drugmakers ask Supreme Court to toss terrorism-support ruling

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As for us, we are busy with the usual sorts of things. But while patient advocates are celebrating, critics see it as the unfortunate triumph of a flawed theory of the disease’s cause and predict the rollout of the drug will aggravate racial disparities in elder care , KFF Health News explains. Drugmakers are asking the U.S.

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Top Performing Drug – Trikafta/Kaftrio (May Edition)

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Chemist Warehouse merger with Sigma to create $8.8bn pharmacy group

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Chemist Warehouse founders Mario Verrocchi and Jack Gance will hold executive positions in the new entity, with the value of their family interests rising to about $5bn, according to details released to the stock exchange on Monday.

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Will hundreds of Australian pharmacies close over dispensing changes or is it just a scare campaign?

The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

We look at how the claims of potentially 20,000 job losses, medicine shortages and billion-dollar revenue falls stack up Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The Pharmacy Guild of Australia has painted a “catastrophic” picture in which 20,000 jobs will (..)

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