Shift work negatively impacts health
Men and women are affected differently, researchers find Shift work and irregular work schedules can cause several health-related issues and affect our defence against infection, according to new research from …
What’s on in pharmacy?
The latest events news: how APP can be COVID-safe, plus National Medicine Symposium speakers revealed With less than five weeks to go to APP2021, the team behind the event have …
Clinical Tips: Tonsillitis
Sore throat is one of those things that affects most of us at some time, particularly over the winter months, says Brad Butt In fact, having a sore throat is …
Keeping on schedule
No change to Symbicort scheduling, TGA confirms, however an antihistamine will move to Schedule 3 The TGA has confirmed a previous interim decision to reject the downscheduling of the asthma …
Pharmacists crucial to ICU follow-up
More than 80% of COVID-19 ICU patients required a medication intervention in this study, with a pharmacist stepping in to identify changes Pharmacists can deliver interventions that provide significant benefit …
Pharmacist fined $38,000 for practising while suspended
Falsely claiming to be registered erodes public trust in health practitioners, says Pharmacy Board A New South Wales pharmacist who continued to practise after his registration was suspended has been …
Locum admits writing false script
He claimed he was threatened by an unknown man A pharmacist reportedly wrote out a prescription for codeine after he was threatened, according to the Swindon Advertiser. Lawyers for the …
World news wrapup: 22 April 2021
Felt art pharmacy so convincing that patients try to buy medicines; overwhelming response to fundraiser in the name of pharmacist who died of COVID-19; Dublin court “at a loss” over …
Weighing up the benefits
Extensive review including RCTs reveals positive impact of community pharmacy interventions for adults with asthma A narrative review led by pharmacist researchers and published this month in Research in Social …
Untying pharmacy’s Gordian Knot
April 1896: Parliament remains a ‘wayward maiden’ for pharmacist’s seeking to set aside intercolonial legislative differences As Australian was in the process of moving towards it eventual Federation a mere …
Consent key in chemo case
The days of doctors deciding what patients should know or consent to are “long gone,” a tribunal has noted in imposing protective orders on a former pharmacist A former pharmacist …
Pharmacists make a 12-minute difference
Adding an emergency medicine pharmacist to a stroke call-out team showed a marked difference in treatment times Researchers from Monash University’s Pharmacy Department (Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences), the …