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Standards on drug errors urged

29 January 2010 | Provisions to limit medication errors need to be implemented in new health care safety standards being developed by the Government, according to the medical technology industry.


NPS drug information hotline shelved

28 January 2010 | A drug information telephone hotline used by pharmacists will be shut down in the middle of the year because of rising costs and limited reach.


Drug lookalike measures seen as insufficient

27 January 2010 | Proposed new measures that aim to make a distinction between drugs and food products that look like drugs still leave a "grey area", according to makers and retailers of complementary medicines.


Heroin treatments falling

23 October 2009 | Heroin has continued its decline as the main drug of addiction for people seeking treatment, according to a new report into drug services released today.


SSRIs in pregnancy linked to infant heart defects

24 September 2009 | The use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in early pregnancy, particularly sertraline and citalopram, may increase a baby’s risk of septal heart defects, new research has found.


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