Forum: Ethical conundrum re: patient treatment & OHS
“A nursing home my pharmacy services has two patients who have chronic, asymptomatic hepatitis C infection. For one patient, there is little issue. There is no symptoms as discussed, and …
Welcome to Australia’s booziest week: Amcal
Amcal is predicting a big productivity hit from today, thanks to Aussies’ love of overindulging. The brand says its research shows Monday December 12 is the start of the country’s …
Meet the finalists: Terry White Chemmart Hawthorn
We meet the finalists in the Guild Pharmacy of the Year competition… introducing Terry White Chemmart Hawthorn Competing against a neighbouring discount pharmacy has highlighted to Terry White Chemmart Hawthorn …
Drug relapse more likely if recovery is forced
Voluntary methadone maintenance therapy is more effective than involuntary in-centre treatment, new research shows People with chronic opioid use disorders are more likely to relapse and do so sooner if …
Travel medicine: Let’s fly (or sail) away
What role should pharmacy play in travel medicine? It’s highly likely that as professional services like vaccinations are increasingly provided by pharmacists, they will also have a more significant role …
The week in review
We take a look back at the last week in pharmacy As we head towards Christmas and the end of 2016, life goes on in the pharmacy industry. And life’s …
‘Bad Santa’ robs pharmacy
Investigators with an Ontario police department are searching for a man who robbed a pharmacy while wearing a false beard and Santa hat. The “bad Santa” allegedly entered the pharmacy …
The Fit Pharmacist taking social media by storm
Gold Coast community pharmacist Holly Louise also happens to be a personal trainer, online coach, bodybuilder, businesswoman and social media star Holly Louise, also known as The Fit Pharmacist, has …
GP found guilty of murdering wife with insulin
A Sydney doctor has been found guilty of injecting his wife in the buttock with fast-acting insulin so that he could be with his lover Justice Clifton Hoeben ruled on Thursday …
Forum: Let Pharmacists take control of medicines risks?
“A recent systematic review in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology entitled The effect of prescriber education on medication related patient harm in the hospital came to the conclusion that …
Clinical tips: quit smoking
There’s much more to quitting smoking than the usual stock advice, write Esther Lau and Lisa Nissen Smoking is bad for you! You need to stop smoking! Sometimes this is …
Warning on biosimilar burden
A higher than usual degree of pharmacovigilance is required when patients are switched to new biosimilar medications, say Australian experts Writing in the latest Australian Prescriber two pharmacy academics have stressed …