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    AHPRA Advertising Guidelines: What Health Businesses Can and Cannot Say

    Section 133 of the National Law regulates every advertisement for a regulated health service, and it binds clinic owners and companies as much as practitioners. This guide works through the five prohibitions, the testimonial problem, the TGA overlay for injectables and prescription products and how to audit your marketing before the regulator does.

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