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Pharmacy Council Reprimands Elias Juanas for Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

Pharmacy Council Reprimands Elias Juanas for Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct

Mr Elias Juanas, the owner of Elias Pharmacy, has been found guilty of Unsatisfactory Professional Conduct. The Pharmacy Council rebuked Mr Juanas after a long investigation that uncovered a wide range of alarming practices, including his dealings (and his Pharmacy’s dealings) with Mr Sam Cohen of the Institute of Hair Regrowth & Beauty (IHRB). Despite his protests […]

Prison sentence for Elias’ Pharmacist in Charge

Prison sentence for Elias’ Pharmacist in Charge

Since the Health Care Complaints Commission prohibited Elias Juanas and Roberto Mamblona from operating as the Pharmacists in Charge of their own pharmacy, the notice board at Elias Pharmacy listed Tom Gorgy as the man in charge. This is the Tom (Talat) Gorgy who was sentenced to two years in prison for embarking upon a […]

Does Elias Pharmacy know about Oxycodone?

Does Elias Pharmacy know about Oxycodone?

Al Capone was untouchable. The US Federal authorities could not nail him on drug charges, so they turned their attention to tax evasion. The Capone case is often referenced as an example of how sometimes, if it seems difficult to catch a crook on one set of allegations, there might be other avenues pertaining to […]

Did Elias Pharmacy inject hormones into IHRB’s bottles?

Did Elias Pharmacy inject hormones into IHRB’s bottles?

There are fresh queries about the ingredients used by Elias Pharmacy to compound the topical hair regrowth solution for IHRB. Specifically, was Progesterone and/or Ketoconazole used in any formulation at the instructions of Mr Sam Cohen or one of the pharmacists at Elias Pharmacy, and outside the scope of the prescription, and unbeknownst to the prescribing […]

Elias Pharmacy under investigation

Elias Pharmacy under investigation

Mr Elias Juanas, who refused an interview under advice from his solicitor, told me, ‘We’ve done nothing wrong!’ He and his fellow pharmacist, Mr Roberto Mamblona, were at their Elias Pharmacy in Fairfield when I visited on Thursday 24 July 2014. They were indeed surprised to see me, while my camera crew waited outside. Mr […]

Gazetted: Elias Juanas & Roberto Mamblona of Elias Pharmacy

Gazetted: Elias Juanas & Roberto Mamblona of Elias Pharmacy

Two senior pharmacists at Elias Pharmacy have had their newly-imposed conditions published in the Government Gazette of Friday 21 May 2014, listing the actions taken by the Ministry of Health to ban both pharmacists from being in charge of their pharmacy, while stripping them of their drug licence. This action was taken after the Pharmacy Services […]

Lights out for two more of IHRB’s pharmacists

Lights out for two more of IHRB’s pharmacists

Another two pharmacists who supplied products to Sam Cohen have today been banned from carrying a Drug Licence. The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency has imposed three Conditions on Messrs Elias Juanas and Roberto Gustavo Mamblona of Elias Pharmacy of Fairfield. The Conditions are identical for both men. The first Condition says that they are, […]

The compounding conundrum

The compounding conundrum

Sam Cohen of IHRB can’t seem to make up his mind. One minutes he says that he has all his bottles compounded by a pharmacist. When he is reminded that this would be a criminal offence, especially due to the fact that he is Prohibited by the Health Care Complaints Commission from supplying or selling […]

Poison found in IHRB’s bottles

Poison found in IHRB’s bottles

An independent TGA-Accredited laboratory found that Sam Cohen’s topical solution contained a Schedule 2 Poison, which is a medication that Sam Cohen of IHRB is forbidden from supplying or selling. Mr Cohen has insisted that he has not breached the Prohibition Order which was slapped on him by the Health Care Complaints Commission. The Order […]

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