Breathing new life into COPD diagnosis and treatment

Prevention, early diagnosis and optimal treatment are essential to reduce the progression of this irreversible disease.

Giving a voice back to elderly patients

Yesterday’s National Medicine Symposium delivered a stark critique of how our health system is failing older patients – and how to fix it.

Understanding the barriers to RMMRs

Residential medication management reviews have proven to be beneficial in identifying medicine-related problems, so why are they so under-utilised?

ATAGI highlights progress amid resurgent diseases

ATAGI flagged worrying vaccine coverage declines and renewed disease threats, with pharmacists tipped to boost community protection.

Stop the tingle: cold sore care essentials

Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) is a highly prevalent virus that causes recurrent mucocutaneous lesions, most commonly herpes labialis, also known as cold sores.

Paediatric sleep: not child’s play at all

Healthy sleep requires a range of complex physiological processes to be aligned with the body’s circadian clock and matched to social and environmental contexts