Pharmacies set to be consolidated into large retail groups: Terry White founder – August 13, 2015

Speaking at the recent Terry White Chemists national conference in Melbourne (Aug 9 – 11), former Pharmacy Guild of Australia (QLD) President, and founder of the Terry White Chemists Group, Terry White explained that as the pharmacy profession changes, pharmacies will increasingly be consolidated into large retail groups. According to Pharmacy News, August 11, 2015,…

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Gaming – the future of health: August 2, 2015

Who are Australia’s biggest gamers? Perhaps 18-25 year old men, or teenage boys? According to Nick Bowditch, Founder of The Mentoring Club, and the only Australian to have worked for both Twitter and Facebook, our nation’s biggest gamers are mothers! Although somewhat surprising, an IGEA Digital Australia report released in 2014 revealed 81 per cent…

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A mother’s renewed appeal to the government to save her young daughter’s life – July 31, 2015

On December 1, 2014, the small aHUS Australian community celebrated with the PBS listing of Soliris (eculizumab) through Section 100: Highly Specialised Drugs Program for those who meet certain criteria, and the earmarking of $63 million in treatment funding over the next four years. Since then, our celebrations have begun to sour, as aHUS patients currently accessing…

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2015 Melbourne & Sydney ‘Digital Pharma Seminar’ – July 28, 2015

The fourth annual Digital Pharma Seminar series, co-hosted by VIVA! Communications and Princeton Digital, was held across two full days in Sydney and Melbourne on July 15 and 21, 2015 respectively. The two one-day-seminars provided an opportunity for Australian pharmaceutical marketers and communicators to expand their digital skills-set and explore the benefits of digital technologies…

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VIVA! co-hosting Australia’s 4th Digital Pharma seminar in Melbourne today

Princeton Digital and VIVA! Communications are co-hosting Australia’s 4th Digital Pharma seminar in Melbourne today (July 21, 2015). There’s a great line-up of speakers, from Digital Strategist, Paul Ramondo addressing the topic, ‘Everyone’s your billboard’, to CEO of Medicines Australia, Tim James, outlining how pharma can jump on-board the digital innovation journey. Founder of the…

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