Ms. Vanessa Petroni is a final year pharmacy student and a nutritionist at the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Directorate. She is currently concluding her dissertation entitled 'Pharmaceutical Services in Lifestyle Modifications: Overweight and Obesity'. As part of the dissertation she is organising a seminar in collaboration with the Health Promotion and Disease Preve...

The President and Executive Council of the Kamra ta' l-Ispizjara ta' Malta welcomed the 2011 & 2012 Pharmacy Graduates to the Pharmacy Profession and National Pharmacy Association on Tuesday 31st July 2012 at   7.30 pm at 127, The Professional Centre, Sliema Road, Gzira. There was an overwhelming positive response in terms of attendance as well as feedback during the eve...

Most of you by now have received a link to be able to download the application form for the Tax Deduction  attached to the POYC Scheme. Most of you have also attended the meeting we organised recently on the subject where we also had in attendance two top officials from the Inland Revenue Department to explain the recent achievements of the two organisations representing you wi...

The President and Executive Council of the Kamra ta' l-Ispizjara ta' Malta will be welcoming the 2011 & 2012 Pharmacy Graduates to the Pharmacy Profession and National Pharmacy Association on Tuesday 31st July 2012 at   7.30 pm at 127, The Professional Centre, Sliema Road, Gzira. Refreshments will follow a presentation which will be delivered by Kamra President Ms. M. A...

When you hear the word shark, what is the first thing that pops into your head? The image of a dark rigid fin slicing through the water, or a monster leaping from dark depths. Sharks are actually vital for the health of our seas, without them, we'd have more jellyfish and less fish. Greg Nowell from Sharklab will be talking about the 'Sharks Around Malta' on the 13th July at 2...

The Kamra ta' l-Ispizjara ta' Malta in collaboartion with GRTU will be holding an Extraordinary General meeting (EGM) on the recently published Legal Notice 113 of 2012  re Tax Credit for those pharmacies participating in POYC scheme.  The meeting will be held on Tuesday 26th June @ 7.30pm @ The Professional Centre, Sliema Road, Gzira (and not the GRTU Premises as previously no...

DIABETES affects 31 million people in the European Union - in Malta there are about 40,000 people who live with Diabetes. Around the world, there are over 350 million people living with this condition. Every 10 seconds, a person dies with diabetes whilst another two are diagnosed with this condition. Urgent action is necessary to prevent this growing epedimic of Diabetes. Sin...

EPF is pleased to announce the launch of the new European database of suspected adverse drug reaction reports website at www.adrreports.eu. Created by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), this website is a positive first step in the implementation of the EudraVigilance Access Policy. Granting patients and the public access to the data held in Eudravigilance – the central EU ...

As you are aware, negotiations on the next POYC agreement shall be opening soon. It is of vital importance that pharmacists especially those practicing in community pharmacy and already delivering a POYC service attend the next seminar/CPD meeting which will especially focus on POYC. The past two (2) CPD seminars held on the 31st May and 4th June respectively have already de...

The Kamra ta’ l-Ispizjara has the pleasure of inviting you to the second seminar of this year’s CPD programme entitled: Patient Centred Care: A Visionary Paradigm Shift   on Monday 4th June at 7.30pm  at Dar l-Ewropa, 254, St.Paul Street Valletta  Presentations by John Raymond Anderson, Commonwealth Pharmacists Association (CPA) President and President of the Pharmaceutical...