World news wrapup: 1 November 2018
What happened to the Boots closed during the Novichok poisoning; Americans can’t afford to fill scripts; Uganda crying out for pharmacists Amesbury, UK: The area manager of the Boots which …
Sports health in community pharmacy
It is common for customers to present to community pharmacy with various symptoms and injuries resulting from sporting activities. While not all of these will be able to be treated …
Preventing poisoning: which pills can kill?
With medicines implicated in at least one quarter of poisonings reported to Australian Poisons Information Centres, it is critical that pharmacists, as a likely initial point of contact for many …
Chronic low back pain: a review
Low back pain is a very common condition, often identified and discussed during home medicines reviews. The benefit of pharmacological treatment for chronic non-specific low back pain in terms of …
Frail older people, vulnerability and medications
Frailty is a multifactorial syndrome associated with functional impairment and increased susceptibility to disease, disability and mortality. This article will review the frailty syndrome and present a clinical approach that …
Why we should get connected
My Health Record is the key to improving medication safety, and pharmacists have a crucial role, says Dr Shane Jackson Australia’s healthcare system is under great strain with rising costs …
A town with no medicines
Minister petitioned by a town without a pharmacy, and more argy bargy over PBS rejections, were parliamentary highlights last week A majority of citizens of the small NSW town of …
Higher control with MHR, says Agency
Australia’s digital health record may be controversial, but it will give people more control than similar systems internationally A Digital Health Evidence Review, released by the Australian Digital Health Agency, …
Proven allegations easier to find
It will be easier for consumers to make public safety checks on health practitioners under new AHPRA changes The changes, to the national Register of practitioners, will facilitate access of …
Australia rubella-free
Rubella has been officially eradicated in Australia, the World Health Organization has announced “The elimination of rubella is a great day for public health in Australia and sends a powerful …
Hypertension uncovered
One in 10 Australians who participated in a national blood pressure check health program have been advised to seek further medical attention for possible high blood pressure More than 10,000 …
Solutions needed on medicines abuse
Real time monitoring could drive people with prescription drug addictions to heroin, say substance abuse stakeholders Late last week Painaustralia, the Faculty of Pain Medicine and the Australian Pain Society …