Food shortages among ATSI people highlighted
Health organisations have called for greater efforts to overcome food insecurity, with new data showing an alarming rate of food shortages among ATSI people. More than one in five Aboriginal …
NSW Labor promises 24-hour pharmacy trial
A Foley Labor Government would spend $3 million – over three years – to trial a program to expand 24-hour pharmacy services. The trial would help three Sydney pharmacies expand …
TB and COPD linked: researchers
Australian scientists have shown an important link between two, previously unconnected lung diseases: TB and COPD. While COPD has long been considered a smoker’s disease, 30% of cases have never …
RACGP demands real-time prescription drug database
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners is again calling for the immediate rollout of a real-time prescription drug database to reduce the number of people dying from prescription drug …
New site for Fred IT
The Fred IT Group has announced that its new website at fred.com.au has gone live. The new website has been launched to better reflect the technology changes that are transforming …
Oz lags behind NZ in meds access: ASMI
ASMI says New Zealand is ahead of Australia in increasing consumer access to medicines. This was in response to a new study published in PLOS One, which compared consumer access …
Alliance pays tribute to Kimberley Pharmacy Services
The National Rural Health Alliance has congratulated Kimberley Pharmacy Services in Broome, Western Australia, on being named the Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s 2015 Pharmacy of the Year. KPS has also …
William Charman to lead FIP education committee
William Charman, dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Monash University has been chosen to lead the International Pharmaceutical Federation Education Initiative Steering Committee. Professor Charman was …
PSA Awards nominations open
Nominations for the PSA Awards for Excellence are now open. National President of PSA, Grant Kardachi, says the PSA Excellence Awards acknowledge and recognise some of the profession’s great achievers. …
Fairlight Pharmacy suffers in media attacks
The owner of the Fairlight Pharmacy on Sydney’s North Shore, which was pictured in an attack on pharmacy by News health reporter Sue Dunlevy in last Sunday’s News Limited tabloids, …
Clinical tips: falls explained
Falls are the most common accidents older people have. Risk factors include: some medicines, some medical conditions, physical and environmental factors The consequences of falls include: 10-20% of falls result …
‘Bile and abuse’ against pharmacists: Tambassis responds
Around Australia, hard-working pharmacists woke up this morning (18 March) to be kicked in the guts by a totally unwarranted torrent of bile and abuse from Janet Albrechtsen, writes George …