For a typical person living in a typical comfortable world, there is hardly any parallel between climate change and health effects.

Following the PSS AGM on 23-Mar-2007, a new PSS Council was elected and the various office bearers were decided during the recent Council Meeting.

We’d like to congratulate our Vice President, Ms Fatimah MK, on occasion of her promotion to Senior Pharmacy Manager.

In the recent Public Forum organized by CASE, Vice President of PSS, Ms Fatimah MK shared with the participants a candid talk with real examples how drug pricing and choices can affect the bill size of patients’ visit to clinics.

It is with sad note that we bid goodbye to our veteran member, Mr. Koh Bok Seng, who served as President of PSS from 1969 to 1974.

According to UN-affiliated body, International Narcotics Control Board (http://www.incb.org/incb/index.html), abuse of prescription drugs is about to exceed the use of illicit street narcotics worldwide.

Genentech and FDA notified healthcare professionals of important new safety information regarding tracheoesophageal (TE) fistula formation in a recent clinical study in patients with limited-stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC).

• FDA Panel Gives Vioxx Successor Thumbs Down
• CDC Says Gonorrhea Is Drug-Resistant
• People with FTO Gene Tend to Weigh More

The Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand (PSNZ) has supported the National Community Pharmacy Advisory Group project team of the District Health Boards of NZ (DHBNZ) to prepare a National Framework for Pharmacist Services.

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