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.

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

ATAGI highlights progress amid resurgent diseases

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

Vaccination key to preventing a devastating flu season

An expert weighs in on the factors driving influenza cases in 2023 and how pharmacists can encourage vaccination in all patients.

Intern pharmacists and GPs collaborate to improve transitions of care

A recent project involving visits from hospital pharmacy interns to a rural GP clinic broadened their perspective of transitions of care.