vaccines
Vaccine hesitancy: nurturing confidence in vaccine hesitant consumers
As pharmacy’s vaccine role continues to expand, and as ambivalence about vaccination grows, pharmacists are increasingly confronting the problem of vaccine hesitancy. This article examines what drives this hesitancy and …
Pharmacy researchers raise alarm on AI threat
Easy creation of rampant “targeted disinformation” about vaccines and vaping shows need for “guardrails”; study Researchers have used generative artificial intelligence to spew out over 100 misleading blogposts, 20 deceptive …
Pharmacists should be able to give monkeypox vaccine
The profession stands “ready and able”, say US pharmacists A group of 14 health organisations have written to the US health officials asking for all pharmacists in the country to …
Vaccines shine for CSL
In “difficult global environment” vaccines division managed 16% profit increase CSL’s newly-renamed vaccines division CSL Seqirus has been one of the brightest divisions for the Australian pharmaceutical giant, with both …
Moderna vaccine sales treble in first quarter
COVID-19 mRNA vaccine sends income and profits through the roof Vaccine sales for US biotech company Moderna were three times what they were for the same period last year, according …
GP cold chain audit results revealed
An audit of GP practices in NSW has found that 33 out of the 44 potentially high-risk clinics examined did not meet vaccine storage standards “NSW Health undertook an audit …
Audit finds some GPs are falling short
GP rules for vaccine storage have been strengthened following the Sydney vaccine bungle and a state-wide audit NSW Health is imposing new rules on all general practitioners after a state-wide …
Patients warned following vaccine bungle
Thousands of patients vaccinated by two Sydney GPs are being contacted after vaccines were found to have expired or not been stored properly The Sydney Local Health District has put …
Pharmacist slammed for claiming infant vaccine ‘unnecessary’
‘My pharmacist tried to talk me out of getting my baby vaccinated,’ claims Aussie mum An Australian mum has spoken to parenting publication Kidspot, saying her experience with one pharmacist …
Tech to help vaccines keep their cool
A Toowoomba company has received Queensland Government funding to pilot an electronics package that helps keep vaccines safely refrigerated Digital technology company 1300 Web Pro is looking for pharmacies and …
How to cut through when talking to anti-vaxxers and anti-fluoriders
Dismissing people’s worries as baseless is one of the least effective ways of communicating public health risks, writes Claire Hooker Claire Hooker, Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, Health and Medical Humanities, University of …
Pressure mounts for lower vaccine prices
Last month, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) surprised Pfizer by refusing a donation of one million doses of the company’s pneumonia vaccine With high numbers of children who are not immunised against …