pharmacy history
When pharmacy ‘had to strive hard for fair and reasonable treatment’
It’s October 1953, and the AJP’s editorial exhorts pharmacists not to rest on their laurels when fighting injustice “Admirable advice was given recently by His Excellency the Governor-General, Sir William …
The ‘lost profession’ – or essential?
It’s 1943 and the pharmacy sector is talking about scope of practice and how it meshes with the profession’s retail aspect “Vague fears for the future have been expressed recently …
Aussies near top of the ‘hit parade’ of drug takers
Government health care cost-cutting, accusations of bias at the ABC and Australians reported as “pill poppers”…it’s the end of the 1970s and the AJP is taking issue with the federal …
Narcotics, TV advertising and a university degree
July 1958; Apprenticeships ditched as Sydney pharmacy university degree set to begin in 1960…and international narcotics convention on the way One of the top AJP stories in July 1958 was …
World news wrapup: 7 July 2022
New hub could handle 40% of UK chain’s scripts, one of Turkey’s oldest pharmacies to become museum upon death of owner; Indian pharmacist’s murder investigated Chesterfield, Derbyshire: The Peak Pharmacy …
World news wrapup: 6 March 2019
New Zealand cough medicine reclassification gaffe; historic Dublin pharmacy asks for help; GP-pharmacist turf war heats up in Malaysia New Zealand: Pharmacies were not told that certain cough medicines had …
Only in the USA!
A very strange product ad emerges from the past. It could only come from the home of the brave, writes Ralph Tapping With all the political turmoil going on in …
