‘We need everyone back on the team’: Verrocchi
Chemist Warehouse chief summons newly minted millionaires back to work, as 100-year plan to become the world’s number one pharmacy franchise accelerates “You’ve bought your toys, your houses, went on your holidays, did what …
WATCH: A survival guide to the silly season
The ‘most wonderful’ time of the year can also be the most stressful in pharmacy. Our webinar panel of specialists in pharmacist wellbeing, peer support and mental health share tips …
Cancer Council kids’ sunscreen recalled
Batches of a popular children’s sunscreen have been ‘urgently’ recalled by its sponsor and the TGA Three batches of Cancer Council Clear Zinc Kids SPF50+ 110g sunscreen have been stripped …
World news wrapup: 4 December 2025
UK strikes a medicines deal with US; WHO calls for fairer GLP-1 treatment; Canadian pharmacist suspended United Kingdom: The UK has dodged the Trump Government’s medicines tariffs by spending up …
‘Watershed win’: CWH brought to bargaining table
“Pharmacy workers will finally have a collective voice to win better pay, predictable rosters and stronger rights,” says union, after first multi-employer bargaining order won in retail sector Retail and …
‘We are really starting to see the impact of those stricter vaping regulations on the ground’
On the latest AJP podcast, our host Carlene McMaugh speaks to pharmacist Keegan Wong about the impact of the 1 July vaping regulations Among the topics covered in this podcast …
‘Common-sense reforms’ remove barriers to meds access
Legislative reforms pave the way for improved access to medicines for Tasmanian patients and visitors to the Apple Isle Tasmanian pharmacists will be able to dispense prescriptions for controlled drugs, …
Award win for NAPSA’s Indigenous chair
Pharmacy student takes home Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA) honour James Cook University’s Shi-Anne Wallace has been named the 2025 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Allied Health Student of the Year. Currently a fourth-year pharmacy student, Wallace, a …
Sandoz drops JustMeds denosumab program promotion
Grassroots response pushes biosimilar manufacturer to rethink its medicine delivery service Sandoz has ceased promotion of a program aimed at boosting uptake of biosimilars after community pharmacists raised concerns about …
A host of awards
AdPha is now celebrating members’ achievements, conference awards, winners of the AdPha Resident of the Year, and newly renamed KC Leong Memorial Registrar of the Year In the closing plenary …
Research Roundup
Debbie Rigby rounds up the latest in research news Optimising pharmacological management of the febrile child Fever in children is a regulated physiological response with a protective role, not a …
Man guilty of holding himself out as medical practitioner
Anyone with information regarding a man who pretended to be a general practitioner is asked to get in touch with the regulator The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) has …