Pharmacy students undertake ‘hands-on’ role
How have students been involved in Australia’s high-stakes vaccination rollout? Alex Vo is 21. He’s a Monash pharmacy student in his fourth year – and, suddenly, also a key foot-soldier …
‘Gross, dangerous and reckless overprescribing.’
A GP is set to be disciplined over reckless prescribing of opioids, and inappropriately disclosing a patient’s extramarital affair A NSW tribunal has found a Central Coast GP guilty of …
Crime roundup
Man sentenced for offences, including threatening a pharmacist, needed help with his medicines The ABC reports that John Saether went to a Rosetta pharmacy in April 2020 and said he …
Confusion sees pharmacists deny first-line treatment
Experts have called on the TGA to clarify information about doxylamine, saying pharmacists often deny the drug to pregnant women trying to manage morning sickness Dr Debra Kennedy, director of …
Guild steps up to help with Parkinson’s
The Guild’s Queensland Branch, has announced it is donating $3,000 to help support those impacted by Parkinson’s disease The donation goes towards the efforts of State Deputy Speaker and MP …
A pharmacist’s concern about the loneliness epidemic
Despite being the most technologically connected society in history, we are the loneliest, writes Jenny Kirschner I have always noticed the unspoken pain of loneliness in my patients. Maybe this …
Research Roundup
Debbie Rigby takes a look at the latest in research news Advise non-pharmacological therapy as first line treatment for chronic insomnia Guidelines recommend non-pharmacological approaches, including cognitive behavioural therapy, as …
‘Hillbilly heroin’ dispensed on defaced, altered handwritten scripts
A pharmacist has had his bid to reinstate his registration knocked back in a Tribunal hearing which noted that his former store now belonged to his son In June 2018, …
Hunt ‘attracted’ to fast-start pharmacy COVID idea
Health Minister flags a possible early start for some pharmacies in the vaccine rollout, as the Guild president takes aim at “Soviet-style” mass vaccination Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has …
Problematic opioid use often temporary: study
Aussie researchers followed more than 1500 people with pain over five years… what did they find? Contrary to predominant thinking in pain management, there is considerable fluidity in opioid use …
NSW blood clot death ‘likely linked to vaccine’
Expert panel issues findings after reviewing case of a woman who died days after receiving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine Australia’s third case of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia is “likely linked” to …
Burning out
Absenteeism, fleeing the profession, self-reported errors, reduced patient care: COVID’s impacts on pharmacists revealed The graphic impacts that COVID-19 has had on Australia’s pharmacists have been revealed by a new …