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A coroner has recommended laxatives be rescheduled to Pharmacist Only following the death of a woman who was taking up to 800 Dulcolax tablets a day Adelaide woman Claudia La …

A coronial inquiry has found use of synthetic cannabinoids led to the death of a Perth man, who was having trouble sourcing his usual cannabis supply Steven John Colloff, 47, …

Two doctors have been implicated in the death of a 79-year-old man after he was administered morphine, despite having taken leftover Endone tablets prescribed to his late wife In August …

Food safety stakeholders are warning people vulnerable to Listeria infection to avoid eating rockmelon, after 10 cases and two deaths were linked to the fruit The NSW Food Authority has …

The Victorian Government will offer free flu vaccination for children aged six months to five years, as new research examines parental attitude barriers Amid calls for the Federal Government to …

Health Minister Greg Hunt has announced the introduction of two new trivalent vaccines specifically aimed at protecting people aged over 65 He also announced the composition of the 2018 quadrivalent …

A man who died hours after his operation was wrongly prescribed fentanyl instead of oxycodone and paracetamol Paul Lau, 54, died at a Sydney hospital in June 2015 after he was …

A pharmacist believed the dose of methotrexate prescribed to a man who later died was inappropriate – but her concerns were ignored Fairfax media outlets have reported on the inquest …

A pharmacist involved in the deadly 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak in the US has been jailed for eight years Glenn Chin was the supervisory pharmacist at the New England Compounding …

People with diabetes are twice as likely to suffer sudden cardiac death, a new report shows Released by the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, The Dark Heart of Type 2 …

Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy and the University of Sydney’s Peter Carroll have gone head-to-head on Radio National debating codeine efficacy and implication in overdose The two spoke to the …

Pharmacy Guild NSW Branch president David Heffernan has hit out at recent claims about deaths associated with OTC codeine, saying they defame pharmacists In a message to NSW Guild members, …