Clinical tips: stroke
How can pharmacists help prevent stroke? writes Ben BasgerAbout 50, 000 Australians have a stroke (cerebrovascular accident or CVA) per year. Factors that increase the risk of stroke are increased …
NPS MedicineWise rejects ‘selling out’ to big pharma claim
The not-for-profit vehemently denies claims by leading medical publication that it has “sold its soul to big pharma”CEO Dr Lynn Weekes has written a lengthy letter hitting back at claims …
Kirrily Chambers joint winner of diabetes award
Australia’s first pharmacist to qualify as a Credentialled Diabetes Educator has tied with a founding ADEA member to be awarded National Credentialled Diabetes Educator of the Year 2016.Kirrily Chambers, a …
Metformin supply crisis worsens
Availability of all extended release products now limited: TGAThe crisis over low supply of metformin has worsened, with all extended release products now being classified as having limited availability.On 17 …
Pharmacy Board sets fees for 2016/17
The Pharmacy Board of Australia has announced the national registration fees for pharmacists for 2016/17The general registration fee has been set at $328, limiting the increase to indexation.It will apply …
King urges employee pharmacists to make Review submissions
Professor Stephen King and the pharmacists’ union are urging employee pharmacists to make a submission to the King ReviewThe Chair of the Federal Government’s Review into Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation …
Weekly Dose: Naloxone, how to save a life from opioid overdose
Weekly Dose: Naloxone, how to save a life from opioid overdoseSuzanne Nielsen, UNSW Australia and Simon Lenton, Curtin UniversityNaloxone is an opioid antagonist, used as an “antidote” for opioid overdose …
Policy statement on medicines environmental impact
Pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists must take responsibility for mitigating the environmental consequences of medicines, says the International Pharmaceutical FederationAn official policy statement adopted by the FIP Council in Buenos Aires, …
Pharmacists urged to sign up smokers to quit
Throughout September, Lung Foundation Australia is appealing to pharmacists to encourage people who want to quit smoking to sign up to quit in OctoberToday, the Federal Government raised taxes on …
ACT pharmacies in new pregnancy quit smoking program
Community pharmacies in Canberra will take part in an innovative program to help pregnant women quit smoking, says the Guild.The Pharmacy Guild of Australia – ACT Branch – has won …
Andrew Morgan is SA Pharmacy Assistant of the Year
Andrew Morgan from McLaren Vale Chemmart is the South Australian winner in the Pharmacy Assistant of the Year awardHaving worked off and on in pharmacy for more than 17 years, …
Forum: Victorian opioid replacement program take-away reductions
[…]”No single methadone supply should exceed three consecutive take-away doses (down from five).” BUT anyway: Do we REALLY think this is going to quantitatively reduce the danger from take-away doses? Post a …