In Depth
Agenda Setters: Marta Stybowski
AJP chats with Marta Stybowski, who was voted by readers as pharmacy’s fourth leading Agenda Setter Starting out as a community pharmacist, Marta Stybowski has branched out into an interesting, …
Clinical tips: residential aged care
Karalyn Huxhagen unpicks the ways in which pharmacists should be utilised in residential aged care… with appropriate remuneration The recent announcement of the Royal Commission into Aged Care facilities is …
The aged care dilemma
A national residential medication chart is urgently required if we are to begin to fix one pharmacy-relevant aspect of the aged care crisis, says Anthony Tassone The recent revelations …
Retail pharmacists vs clinical pharmacists?
All pharmacists should be called clinical pharmacists, and to differentiate roles we should simply use the setting in which they practice, argues Alicia Martin Earlier this year I was invited …
Research Roundup
Debbie Rigby takes a look at the latest in research news Lactobacillus reuteri reduces bone loss in older women with low bone mineral density In this double‐blind, placebo‐controlled study, women …
Agenda Setters: Michael Dooley
AJP chats with Michael Dooley, who was voted by readers as pharmacy’s third leading Agenda Setter Professor Michael Dooley, the current President of the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA) …
GP pharmacist claims don’t pass the pub test
Moves towards integrating pharmacists into GP surgeries duplicate roles and may drain community pharmacies of talent, writes Catherine Bronger Suggestions made in a recent report that integrating non-dispensing pharmacists into …
Clinical tips: osteoporosis and bone health
Bone density is a surrogate for fracture risk, write Jarrod McMaugh and Carlene McMaugh Pharmacists are well versed in the nature of bone density and how it affects the risks …
Research Roundup
Debbie Rigby takes a look at the latest in research news Anticonvulsants in the treatment of low back pain and lumbar radicular pain A systematic review and meta-analysis has demonstrated …
How Priceline Pharmacy plans to dominate the beauty space
API is competing in the pharmacy retail space by boosting its health and beauty offering, claiming to have Australia’s biggest loyalty program in this area with 7 million members Clever …
Diagnosing pharmacy’s terminology issues
Does pharmacy have a problem with the way it thinks about, and refers to, patient diagnosis? Glenn Guilfoyle and Jenny Blair thinks it does, and that it may have unintended …
Agenda Setters: Amy Page
AJP chats with Amy Page, who was voted by readers as pharmacy’s second leading Agenda Setter The Agenda Setters campaign asked AJP readers to vote for the pharmacists they feel are showing …