A Dermatologists’ guide to holistic skincare routines with acne treatment
While treatment is a definitive therapeutic component in the management of acne, adjunctive skincare is just as important in alleviating symptoms and signs of disease, reducing the use of therapeutic …
When the going gets tough…the big start acquiring
Australia’s major banner groups are almost all heralding expansion of some description, but with rising interest rates and wages, significant inflation and the end of the COVID boom, what does …
The week in review
Two opposing forces lobbied for different ways to save patients money this week, while there was lots of medicines news and we looked at burnout in hospitals There was bad …
Community pharmacy incompatible with prescribing
Concerns about patient privacy and pharmacists’ workloads in community pharmacies are being flagged as reasons not to implement independent pharmacist prescribing Community pharmacies do not provide a suitable environment for …
Docs ‘gobsmacked’ to discover longstanding clause
In its latest salvo against the Pharmacy Guild, a doctor stakeholder group has slammed the remuneration adjustment mechanism in the 7CPA Doctor groups continue to lobby for 60-day dispensing and …
Pharmacy bodies declare support for Voice campaign
Leaders of two major pharmacy organisations are publicly backing the introduction of a First Nations Voice to Parliament Pharmacists are being urged to get behind the ‘Yes’ campaign ahead of …
‘The problem is they’re just going to get Ventolin.’
Stakeholders including pharmacists are warning that the change to criteria for prescribing fluticasone propionate will hurt less wealthy families – especially as we head into winter A change to how …
Pharmacist attacked with Jack Daniels amid crime crackdown
A pharmacist had to go to hospital with minor head injuries after a teenage thief threw cans of alcohol at her Channel Seven has reported on the Woodcroft, South Australia …
Covid and medication: how research emerged
Researchers focus on the impact of COVID-19 medical research on Australian community pharmacy practice This is the fourth in a series of articles about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic …
Did the paracetamol MR upschedule change overdose rates?
Rescheduling modified release paracetamol to Pharmacist Only did not significantly reduce overdose, researchers write Rose Cairns, Firouzeh Noghrehchi and Nicholas Buckley have examined the impact of the June 2020 decision …
Education key for readers in paracetamol poisoning
We asked readers what measures they supported to help reduce paracetamol poisoning amongst the general public… and there was one standout response Earlier this year, the Therapeutic Goods Administration announced …
Respected pharmacist on ice charges
A pharmacist has been fined after police found meth pipes in his car during two separate incidents A Queensland Magistrate’s Court has heard the case of a former director of …