Top tips for a difficult hay fever season

Changing weather patterns could spell trouble ahead for hay fever sufferers. Now is the time to ensure patients have optimum relief.

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?

The cardiovascular crisis needs a pharmacy-led response

Pharmacists have numerous opportunities to assess risk, recommend therapies, and help patients manage their heart health.

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

Glauber’s salt: the laxative of choice until the 1900s

Until ‘more sophisticated alternatives’ came about in the 1900s, Glauber’s salt was the global go-to purgative.

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.