Pharmacist named Queensland’s Rural Ambassador
Taroom Pharmacy owner Christie McLennan’s passion for rural life has won her the 2017 “Marsh” Rural Queensland Ambassador award The pharmacist and Brahman cross beef producer grew up in the …
Medicinal cannabis black market worries TGA
The TGA has criticised claims that red tape turns patients to black market cannabis And one medicinal cannabis stakeholder says that doctors are unready when it comes to prescribing the …
King of the slopes
Who were the 2017 masters of the ski fields at the annual Pharmacy Snow Business conference? Joseph Daggian from Prahran Amcal Pharmacy in Victoria is the 2017 winner of the …
Learning in the workplace key in new unit
A new Monash education unit is set to focus on workplace learning The Monash Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is launching a new organisational unit focused specifically on learning …
Strengthen CPAs to improve pay: Jackson
PSA president Dr Shane Jackson has called for a “much stronger” 7CPA to ensure better pay for pharmacists Last week the union for employee pharmacists released its latest remuneration report, …
Too much medicine?
Australian health and consumer groups have banded together to release a statement calling for an end to overdiagnosis and overtreatment A group of clinicians, consumers and policy makers have released …
Ovarian cancer patient wins $525 million from J&J
It is the largest payout so far in a string of lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson and its talc-based products A US jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to …
Reflections on rural Australia
Pharmacy Student of the Year Jessica Bailey shares some thoughts on her recent pharmacy placement in outback NSW Jessica Bailey is a pharmacy student at Monash University, currently finishing her …
Research Roundup
Debbie Rigby rounds up the latest in research news Faecal microbiota transplantation for Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea Moderate quality evidence from 10 RCT trials indicates that faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) …
Travel for your education
The 2018 PSA Offshore Refresher Conference features one of the most ambitious programs to date Next year’s conference will have a diversity of venues stretching from the Tropics to the …
Next year’s codeine behaviour forecast
New figures show many will still see pharmacy as their first port of call for pain relief after codeine is upscheduled New research from Sanofi Consumer Healthcare investigated the likely …
A changing climate
How will health services survive climate change impacts on rural and remote populations? Climate change threatens to impact the lives of Australians living in rural and remote regions, through increased …