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Pharmacy Connect is conducting our 1st survey of pharmacy professional salaries to determine whether pharmacy professionals are sufficiently well paid for the important work that they do. We would like you to be part of this survey, which contains only 5 questions and is completely anonymous, and will take no more than 3 minutes to […]

Announced at this week’s international AIDS Vaccine Conference in Barcelona, the South African trial will involve the only vaccine shown to have some effect on the virus when it was tested among 16,000 people in Thailand. Released in 2009, the Thai trial’s results showed that HIV infection rates were 31 percent lower in participants who

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Fraudulent scripts – Gauteng area (Message from PSSA): The PSSA has been contacted by MacRobert Attorneys regarding fraudulent prescriptions on a letterhead of Drs Kilian, Nienaber, Williams & associates. They requested that the PSSA inform all members in the Gauteng area of the problem. It seems that a person has produced a fake prescription pad

Five-and-a-half million South Africans at risk for disease because of high cholesterol. If you’re not one of them, you must know someone with high cholesterol. These foods can help with cholesterol control: • Olive oil and olive products • Legumes (these includedry, cooked or canned beans, lentils, peas and all the soya products) • Fat-free

New Product: MSD has launched JANUMET® which is an addition to the recent introduction of JANUVIA®. The two fall into the same portfolio of new oral antidiabetic agent for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. JANUVIA® contains sitagliptin, a dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP-4) inhibitor (incretin enhancer) that increases the levels of two incretin hormones, glucagon-like

Adcock Ingram has launched Adco-Atorvastatin. The prices are as follows: (SEP – including VAT) Adco-Atorvastatin 10mg        R 32.10 Adco-Atorvastatin 20mg        R 34.10 Adco-Atorvastatin 40mg        R 60.00 If you have any queries – please contact: Francis Tlomatsana Tel:         011 635 0720 e-mail:    francis.tlomatsana@adcock.com

Sanofi would like to assure you that this out-of-stock situation of Sofradex® is temporary and at present, we are actively and earnestly endeavouring to make sure that we will have stock of Sofradex® 8ml available as soon as possible to prevent any further disruption and inconvenience. Should you have any further queries, please contact our

Seroquel XR 150mg® is now launched and is indicated as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of resistant major depressive disorder. It should be administered once daily in the evening, with or without food, and swallowed whole and not split, chewed or crushed. The initial dose for major depressive disorder should begin at 50mg on Day