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Perth is the latest city to suffer a COVID quarantine breach
Why does this keep happening? asks Michael Toole, Burnet Institute Here’s a newspaper headline from May 27, 2020: “Worker at Melbourne quarantine hotel tests positive for COVID-19”. And here’s one …
Clinical tips: Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Keep an eye out for patients coming in to buy anti-diarrhoeals and pain medicines, write Esther Lau and Lisa Nissen Everyone can relate to symptoms like abdominal pain, bloating, constipation, …
Pharmacist up on assault charge
A pharmacist has been sentenced to a good behaviour bond after she hit her child with a coat hanger News Corp media report that the Queensland pharmacist, who has not …
‘Hundreds of prescriptions that should not have been issued.’
A GP blamed printer malfunctions and two patients for a large number of scripts for alprazolam, diazepam and testosterone to two patients A GP’s registration has been cancelled for excessive …
Concerns over substitution by pharmacists
Mixed views over medicine substitution by pharmacists as Parliament debates TGA amendment bill There have been divergences of opinions expressed in Federal Parliament about the substitution of medicines by pharmacists …
Show us the money
Pharmacists need to be properly remunerated for providing vaccinations and other non-PBS services, pharmacist MP says Federal MP and pharmacist, Emma McBride, has called in Parliament for the adequate funding …
Real-time vax safety monitoring for pharmacies may be coming soon
A world-first pilot has linked Australian pharmacies with national surveillance networks such as the AIR, finding fewer adverse events Pharmacy and medical researchers have collaborated with industry partners to pilot …
COVID vaccination and pharmacy
What’s the latest news on pharmacy’s role in COVID-19 vaccination and testing? Welcome to the first of our new AJP curated content newsletters. We will be sending you two of …
Is pharmacy ready for the COVID vaccine?
The federal government says pharmacy is to participate in phase 2 of the COVID-19 vaccination rollout, but our readers are not sure if the profession is ready for this role …
A new face
Union welcomes first pharmacist to its National Board in the role of Vice-President Professionals Australia – which includes union Professional Pharmacists Australia under its umbrella – has welcomed pharmacist Bianca …
World news wrapup: 4 February 2021
Vaccine-tampering pharmacist believes “the sky is not real, rather it is a shield put up by the Government to prevent individuals from seeing God;” digital pharmacist consults roll out in …
Mixed results from scheduling committee
Asthma combination medication to remain a prescription product, but new anti-histamine to be downscheduled, as latest scheduling decisions are released A proposal to downschedule the asthma combination medicine containing budesonide …