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1 Information on this website

This website contains information:

  1. created by or for NPS (‘NPS Information’) — All reasonable efforts have been made to ensure that the information on this site is accurate and up-to-date. To the extent permitted by law, NPS makes no warranties or representations as to accuracy or completeness of information contained on this site.
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The information available from this website is for information purposes only.

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3 Consumer Medical Information leaflets

This website contains Consumer Medicines Information (CMI) leaflets provided and controlled by Healthlinks. NPS has not verified the content of these leaflets and does not guarantee they are accurate, up-to-date or complete.

4a For consumers

The information on this site is not medical advice. Do not use the information on this website to treat or diagnose your own medical condition and never ignore medical advice or delay seeking it because of something on this website. Any medical questions should be referred to your health care professional. If in doubt, please seek medical advice.

We critically assess a wide range of authoritative evidence to create our information, which was accurate and up–to-date when it was published. The evidence or context for some of our information might have changed since then.

4b For health professionals

Any treatment decisions based on this information should be made in the context of the clinical circumstances of each patient. Instead, you must rely on your own professional skill, care and inquiries in the context of the clinical circumstances for each patient.

Our information is derived from a critical analysis of a wide range of authoritative evidence and was accurate and up-to-date when it was published.

The evidence or context for some of the information available from this website may have changed after publication on this website.

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NPS does not endorse or recommend any products (including medicines), tests, treatments or procedures mentioned on this website and to the fullest extent permitted by law, will not be liable for any claim relating to them.

7 Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, NPS, its directors, officers and employees make no representations or warranties about this website or information available from it, either express or implied, statutory or otherwise, including but not limited to:

  1. implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for purpose
  2. the accuracy, reliability, completeness or currency of this website and information available from it, and
  3. the satisfactory compliance with government regulations in relation to therapeutic goods (including medicines) discussed on this website.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, NPS is not liable for any liability, loss, claim, damage, expense, injury or personal injury (including death), whether direct or indirect (including consequential loss) and however incurred (including in tort), caused by or contributed to any person’s use or misuse of the information available from this website. NPS will not be liable for any computer problem (including virus transmission) you may experience as a result of using this website or any of its links.

NPS’ total liability to you for a breach of any ‘Non-excludable Condition’* (other than one implied by section 69 of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth), is limited, at NPS’ option, to any one of:

  1. supplying or replacing, or paying the cost of supplying or replacing any goods supplied to you, or
  2. supplying again, or paying the cost of supplying again, the services supplied to you in respect of which the breach occurred.

*Non-excludable Condition means an implied condition or warranty the exclusion of which from a contract (including a contract with a consumer as defined in the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth)) would breach any statute or cause part or all of these Terms of Use to be void.

Nothing in these Terms of Use is intended to exclude any Non-excludable Condition.

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10 General

This website is intended for the use of people resident in Australia. The use of the website, and these Terms of Use, are subject to the law of New South Wales, Australia.

NPS may amend these Terms of Use without notice to you. These Terms of Use form the entire agreement between you and NPS about the use of this website.

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