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Cardiovascular risks and COVID-19

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60-day savings will grow: MP

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Call for paracetamol to go S4

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A community pharmacist and a PDL professional officer discuss how to minimise psychosocial hazards created by medicolegal incidents in pharmacy, in a webinar moderated by PSS President Curtis Ruhnau 9 …

This week featured vaccination news, a look at the issues facing rural and regional pharmacists, and an examination of vaping The Royal Flying Doctors Service forecast the worsening of the …

New research confirms the benefits of vaccination, writes Glen Pyle, Dalhousie University COVID-19 is a respiratory disease. Yet, from the earliest days of the pandemic, the cardiovascular risks associated with …

Labor MP lauds cost-of-living relief from government’s double dispensing policy   Savings stemming from Labor’s cut to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) general co-payment and 60-day dispensing “will grow”, backbencher …

New research indicates the upscheduling of modified-release paracetamol has had no impact on rates of overdose, with calls for it to go to prescription only  A new Australian study has …

A doctor and qualified pharmacist has been banned from providing any health service after his “disgraceful and contemptible” conduct The practitioner had been registered as a pharmacist between 2008 and …

How can patients start conversations about deprescribing – and where can pharmacists come in? Pharmacists were recently offered a consumer perspective As part of MedsAware: Deprescribing Action Week last week …

Pharmacists are again calling on governments to make continued dispensing measures permanent, as the current arrangements expire​ The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia has highlighted that the National Health (Continued Dispensing – …

Chemist Warehouse’s expansion in the Australian market is continuing with five new stores opening in the first three months of 2024  Discount giant, Chemist Warehouse (CWH), has added stores in …

Electronic medical records (EMRs) play a key role in averting medication errors in hospital settings, researcher reports  Media reports linking EMRs to adverse events overlook the significant medicines safety benefits …

The vaping bill is read a second time, with the National Party arguing again for a similar approach to vaping as Australia has adopted towards tobacco The Albanese’s prescription-only approach, …

Medication software provider MedAdvisor Solutions says it is rapidly deploying artificial intelligence (AI) to take the burden off pharmacists and improve both its margins and patient care model In a …

Pharmacy chain bans children from buying advanced anti-ageing skincare; diabetes medicine mixup sees Dublin woman suffer fatal seizure; proposed mifepristone restrictions in US Supreme Court Stockholm, Sweden: The Apotek Hjärtat …