Flashback Friday: The fatal cough syrup
It’s July 1886, and the AJP complains about the lack of standardisation in certain medicines and the need for “systemic teaching” of pharmacists The brand-new Australasian Journal of Pharmacy covered …
Eye health warning for weight loss drugs
The TGA has issued an alert for products in the GLP-1 RA class of medicines, warning they could cause a severe eye disorder in users Product warnings across the class …
‘Fragmented funding hurts vulnerable patients most’
Commenting on the Grattan report, one stakeholder says professional pharmacist services delivered beyond dispensing should progressively move within Australia’s mainstream Medicare funding architecture The Grattan Institute’s latest report, released earlier …
PBS listings stalled: Medicines Australia
Australian patients are missing out on three-quarters of new drugs, according to Medicines Australia The organisation has released a new report, “Bitter Pill: How Australian patients are missing out on …
Pharmacist services – what Grattan said
The controversial Grattan Report has recommended changes to professional pharmacy services, including medicines reviews – and attacked the PSA’s role in the services agreement The report recommended replacing “arbitrary” caps …
Supermarket talk a ‘distraction’: Grattan
Why shouldn’t the general public be able to pick up “your scripts and sausages under the same roof,” asks Grattan in a follow-up to its controversial report Grattan Institute health …
Recommendations would ‘force the local chemist to turn off the lights’
Suggestions that the location rules be scrapped should be rejected to protect the health of rural Australians, say pharmacists The Remote and Isolated Pharmacist Association Australia (RIPAA) has called on …
Cops strip pharmacy shelves
Police have swooped on a regional NSW pharmacy, seizing items from its storage area According to the Illawarra Mercury, police executed a search warrant on a South Coast pharmacy on …
Fake scripts appear on patient’s My Health Record
A pharmacist’s registration has been suspended after she self-dispensed medicines including diazepam, codeine, tramadol and zolpidem The pharmacist, who was practising in a suburban Perth pharmacy, appeared before Western Australia’s …
‘Don’t take the bait’: AMA president hopeful on Grattan
A candidate for presidency of the AMA says that the Grattan Institute’s new report reflects her campaign platform Dr Anchita Karmakar is a lawyer as well as a rural generalist …
Butler says no to nicotine pouches
Nicotine pouches are to be banned from unapproved therapeutic pathways in a bid to reduce the incidence of addiction in the community Federal health minister Mark Butler has announced that …
More compliance reviews needed for listed medicines: researchers
Less than 2% of Listed Medicines on the TGA registry have been reviewed for efficacy, a new study suggests The study, published in the Internal Medicine Journal by the Royal …