Industry-wide change needed to combat climate change
Collaboration between the health sector and governments is essential to reducing the negative health impacts of climate change.
Help is at hand to understand electronic prescribing
From dispensing using a digital image to the fast-tracking of electronic prescriptions, Australian pharmacists have been at the forefront of digital transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sole pharmacists: Out on one’s own
Australia’s cities hug the coast, but in rural and remote areas, sole pharmacists are providing communities with an essential service. Some may think it’s...
Balancing the scale: the role of oral anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation
Atrial fibrillation is the most common recurrent arrhythmia worldwide, and can put patients at increased risk of stroke.
Strychnine: From murder mysteries to rat bait
Agatha Christie loved strychnine. It starred in her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Thanks to her World War I experience as a hospital dispensary volunteer, and her training as an apothecary’s assistant, the novel received a rave review in The Pharmaceutical Journal.
Telehealth medication review tips
With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, working as a consultant pharmacist in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) suddenly became a professional challenge for Melbourne’s Neil Petrie MPS.
