As businesses including pubs, gyms and beauty salons close tonight to promote social distancing, community pharmacies remain open as one of the most essential services.

Pharmacists can provide support and evidence-based recommendations to protect injuries, reduce pain and promote the healing process.

Professor Lisa Nissen FPS, Director of the Health Workforce Optimisation Program at the University of Queensland, is a role model for the LGBTQIA+ community in pharmacy and health care.

This National Pain Week (25 July– 1 August) Australian Pharmacist explores how to help patients cope with chronic pain.

Psychotropic medicines are ‘overused and misused’ in the disability sector, consultant pharmacist Dr Manya Angley FPS told the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability yesterday.

Funding for on-site pharmacists in aged care heralds a new beginning for medicine safety in the sector, with pharmacists able to use their unique...