Accurate dispensing and labelling of medicines: a review
When dispensing medication, pharmacists have numerous responsibilities beyond ensuring that the correct label is put on the correct product, with the correct directions, and given to the correct patient. This …
Serendipitous findings in medication reviews: urticaria
Because urticaria, or hives, is a common allergic skin disorder, it is also a condition that may be discovered serendipitously while conducting a medication review. It is therefore important to …
Alcohol: problem use
Alcohol is linked to poor health in various and complex ways. This article explores the role that pharmacists have in assisting people who have become dependent on alcohol to reduce …
Modern-day malnutrition: examining the links between mineral deficits and mental health status
Magnesium and Zinc: Mood/Anxiety Fact versus fiction: Understanding the evidence base supporting vitamin and mineral supplementation Modern-day malnutrition—the result of poor dietary habits marked by high intakes of excess sugar …
Confidence with oral anticoagulants
Oral anticoagulants are high risk medicines with indications which include prevention of stroke in non-valvular atrial fibrillation, and treatment and prevention of venous thromboembolism. Sometimes patients are anxious about taking …
‘Before I’m a retailer, I’m a health professional.’
These NSW community pharmacists have drawn a line in the sand when it comes to the kinds of products they sell Pharmacists Luke McGrath and John Jones are taking a …
Caring for winter lips
How to help customers who are looking for relief and protection for dry lips this winter Winter isn’t much fun for our skin and our lips aren’t immune from the …
The week in review
A lot has happened in pharmacy this week, especially in Canberra Pharmacy stakeholders welcomed the introduction of new legislation by Health Minister Greg Hunt which is set to see mandatory …
Making bone health a priority
With 1.2 million Australians affected by osteoporosis, pharmacists can play a key role in encouraging people to make bone health a higher priority, writes Leanne Philpott Osteoporosis is a common, …
Avoid One Night Lover
Regulator issues warnings about a number of untested imported drugs The TGA has issued a warning on three products that it has found to contain sildenafil as an undisclosed substance. …
Censured for faking codeine scripts
A New Zealand pharmacist has been censured after she created false codeine prescriptions and had them filled The New Zealand Health Practitioners’ Discliplinary Tribunal heard a charge of professional misconduct …
Online health, beauty shopping up 34.4%
Health and beauty is one of the strongest online growth industries – and even late adopters of technology are embracing it Roy Morgan Research has taken a look at online …