Antibiotic prescribing is reaching dangerous levels, warns report

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Antibiotic use has crept back up since COVID-19 restrictions have lifted, with multi-resistant bugs increasingly in our midst.

Early intervention through HMRs could save thousands per patient

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Greater access to Home Medicines Reviews (HMRs) offers opportunities to intervene earlier, improve patient outcomes and use healthcare funding more effectively. 

Missing conversations

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Patients are being harmed because we are not talking about the adverse effects of mental health medicines.

How the Curies’ discovery of radium went radioactive

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Medical and cosmetic treatments, luminescent devices, even sex aids soon hit the market after the discovery of radium.

From chemist to pharmacist and beyond …

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Centenarian and PSA life member JSD ‘Stan’ Mellick OAM, ED, PhC, BA, PhD reflects on a 75-year association with pharmacy.

Strychnine: From murder mysteries to rat bait

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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.