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The late president – assassinated 60 years ago – had described the pharmacist as “an indispensable link in the chain of national health protection” It’s December 1963, the world is …

Pharmacists have long played a role dispensing, counselling, and providing education related to sleeping medicines, the number and range of which have changed significantly over the past century. This article …

100 years ago these were the topics filling the pages of the AJP It’s August 1923 – exactly 100 years ago –  and the AJP has a story sounding alarm …

July 1948 – new medicines scheme rendered all but unworkable on its debut after years of doctor boycotts The Health Department has been highlighting the 75th anniversary of the Pharmaceutical …

It’s June 1938 and the Guild shows politicians the error of their ways while the AJP looks at how to compete with chain stores The passage of the National Health …

June 1893; poisons, flooding and the worst depression in Australian history It’s 1893, Australia is still eight years away from Federation, the AJP was still the Australasian Journal Of Pharmacy, …

June 1923: newly-discovered insulin was on its way, debate raged over the title “chemist” and newly outlawed cocaine was also under discussion in the AJP One of the key stories …

A new pharmacy museum showcases just how far the profession has come, says one leading pharmacist The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia has opened a new museum at its Adelaide offices, …

Pharmacy Guild Queensland Branch President Chris Owen has thanked and congratulated Delahunty’s Chemist for nine decades and three generations of pharmacy service “On behalf of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, …

 A new study sheds news light on a historical plague, write Adam Izdebski, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History; Alessia Masi, Sapienza University of Rome, and Timothy …

November 1946, and in the aftermath of World War 2, regulators are wondering what to do with the wonder drug, Penicillin, while pharmacists call for national legislative uniformity Meanwhile, pharmacy …

July 1921: Did the Pharmacy Board approve a shopkeeper’s sales of cheap strychnine, harming pharmacists ‘in the public estimation’?  The July 1921 edition of AJP included a report on “an …