A complex issue
A majority of Australian pharmacists are in favour of pharmacy playing a dispensing role in physician-assisted suicide, providing there is a clear legislative framework The first study to specifically examined …
Paracetamol in pregnancy: ADHD, autism link?
A study looking at a potential link between paracetamol use in pregnancy and ADHD and ASD in children has failed to establish causation, experts caution Researchers from the Johns Hopkins …
Do pharmacists trust their Board?
Only just over half of pharmacists feel confident that the Pharmacy Board is doing everything it can to keep the public safe AHPRA and the National Boards, including the Pharmacy …
Fancy yourself a performer?
Pharmacy’s Got Talent is back for APP2020 – and entries are open to pharmacists AND exhibitors! Next year’s contest promises to be bigger and even more fun than the inaugural competition – we …
Who will open Pharmacy’s Got Talent 2020?
What a way to kick off the inaugural Pharmacy’s Got Talent comp! Who will open next year’s for us? While you enjoy our first-ever candidate Aaron D’Souza’s sweet tones, think …
Research Roundup
Debbie Rigby rounds up the latest in research news Smoking reduction interventions for smoking cessation Evidence suggests that neither reducing smoking to quit nor quitting abruptly results in superior quit …
Deal or no-deal
TGA says it is prepared for any shortages resulting from a no-deal Brexit The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) says it will implement “transitional arrangements to provide for minimal interruption in …
Out of proportion
Male pharmacists are disproportionately over-represented as respondents at serious misconduct hearings, research reveals Australian research, analysing seven years of health practitioner disciplinary tribunal hearings, has found that males were over-represented …
Banned therapist had ‘grossly inadequate’ training
An “over-confident” unregistered health practitioner has been banned from providing dry needling services after his treatment caused a woman’s lung to collapse The NSW Health Care Complaints Commission has advised …
‘I certainly saved lives with what I did.’
A pharmacist who went door-to-door handing out naloxone kits and trained non-pharmacist staff to do the same has admitted to professional misconduct At a disciplinary hearing in Toronto, Canadian pharmacist …
Don’t stop there, Ministers: PSA
Australia’s health ministers have agreed to make QUM and medicines safety a National Health Priority Area At last week’s meeting in Perth, the COAG Health Council discussed a number of …
Together again?
Could Chemist Warehouse and Sigma Healthcare enter a new supply relationship? Upon learning of speculation around whether the My Chemist/Chemist Warehouse group and Sigma could resume their supply arrangement, Sigma …