Codeine buyers still buying codeine
Four-fifths of people who have visited a doctor to get a codeine prescription have not been offered an alternative, new data shows A survey commissioned by AFT Pharmaceuticals looked at …
Meds information at your fingertips
New medicines handbook app launches Australian health professionals now have a new option for accessing medicines information with the release of the new AMH App for Desktop from the Australian Medicines Handbook. …
Research Roundup
Debbie Rigby rounds up the latest in research news Current treatment options for postmenopausal vaginal atrophy Vulvovaginal atrophy (VVA) affects up to 50%–60% of postmenopausal women, with symptoms of dryness, …
Australian wins highest international honour
One of Australia’s most distinguished pharmacists, Emeritus Professor Lloyd Sansom, has received one of the profession’s highest international honours Professor Sansom was awarded the International Pharmaceutical Federation’s (FIP) André Bédat …
Why Aussies use cannabis for medicinal purposes
Cannabis-based medicines should be used carefully until more evidence is accumulated, a drug expert has cautioned Professor Wayne Hall, from the University of Queensland’s Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research, …
Profession’s sustainability ‘requires economic freedom’.
Pharmacists need freedom to operate professionally without pressure, says FIP’s outgoing president Dr Carmen Peña, President of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), said in opening the 78th World Congress of …
Why SafeScript is like seat belts
SafeScript is set to roll out in one Victorian PHN area, ahead of its state-wide expansion next year And president of the Pharmacy Guild Victorian branch Anthony Tassone has compared …
Celebrating innovation
AJP Agenda Setters poll highlights innovation in pharmacy, SHPA says The leading role of hospitals as hubs of healthcare innovation was evident this weekend as several hospital pharmacists and SHPA …
New appointment for Debbie Rigby
Leading pharmacist to head Lung Foundation Australia committee The Lung Foundation Australia has announced that Debbie Rigby has been appointed as the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Pharmacy Committee Chair. …
‘It is time for FIP to rethink its role.’
Swiss pharmacist Dominique Jordan has been elected as president of the International Pharmaceutical Federation Mr Jordan, a community pharmacy owner and former chief executive officer of the Swiss Association of …
Brisbane to host the world’s pharmacists
Brisbane is set to play host to the FIP World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2021 The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, on behalf of the Australian member organisations …