Clinical tips: CVD
Pharmacists can play a key role in advising on their patients’ CVD risk and how to mitigate it, writes Louis Roller Cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to have a major effect …
Transforming vaccination: ‘I really feel like I’m doing the things I trained to do.’
Pharmacists are already making a big difference in how Australians get their flu vaccines, in a “game changer” for the profession that is transforming patient relationships and making pharmacists stand …
Warning on diclofenac risks
Diclofenac the NSAID most commonly associated with liver injury, study finds Caution is needed when recommending diclofenac due to an increased risk of liver injury, experts say. A US study …
Common oral problems including dry mouth
By Dr Jenny Gowan PhD, Grad Dip CommPharm, FPS, FACPP, AACPA, consultant pharmacist, MediCom Medication Management Services; teaching associate, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University; PSA Pharmacist of …
New migrants succumb to fast food culture
New migrants to Australia generally eat more healthy diets than the locals but many are dragged into bad habits by Australia’s fast food culture, new research has found. The study …
Amcal chalks up two years as best service winner
Amcal has been voted by the Australian public as the winner of the Readers Digest Quality Service Award for the second year running. The public voted Amcal as the leading …
Leak raises access to medicines concerns
Negotiating text leaked online last week raises serious concerns for worldwide access to medicines, warns the Public Health Association of Australia. “A proposed intellectual property chapter to Regional Comprehensive Economic …
Forum: How are you handling Panadol Osteo supply to non PBS patients?
“Have been advised by Medicare authority that Paracetamol 665mg tabs only covered for Repat, Palliative Care, and CTG patients. This limits the majority of the general population for a first-line …
Phone-throwing, swearing pharmacist loses unfair dismissal appeal
A pharmacist who threw a phone and verbally abused his business partner and told a staff member to “go and tell more lies,” among other incidents, has had his application …
World news wrapup: 28 April 2016
Pharmacy news from around the world Tulsa, Oklahoma: Buzzfeed has reported on an Oklahoma pharmacy that sold execution drugs to Missouri and last week auctioned off its assets, following loan …
New contraceptive option launches
A new five-mornings after pill is now available in Australia The EllaOne pill, available on prescription from this week, is being distributed in Australia by MS Health, a non-profit arm …
The 20 fastest growing pharmaceutical brands
One treatment in particular drove pharmaceutical sales growth in 2015 A report by US pharmaceutical industry news website First World Pharma has listed the 50 fastest selling drug brands in …