Vaccination rates wane as COVID-19 and influenza cases ramp up

Vaccination rates are rapidly slipping in vulnerable older Australians. Three pharmacists share their advice for turning this around.

Is it actually thrush?

Bacterial vaginosis affects between 20–30% of reproductive aged women. However, 62% of women mistake the symptoms for vaginal thrush.

Coping with COVID-19: the Royal Melbourne Hospital experience

COVID-19 has fostered an even closer relationship between the pharmacy and wards of the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Aged care residents to receive first COVID-19 vaccination next week

Residents in more than 240 aged care facilities across the country will receive their first vaccine dose against COVID-19 from Monday (22 February).

The operational pharmacist

Daniel Gilbertson is a pharmacist with a mind for business. Now the head of healthcare operating models at Medibank, he previously worked as a...

Opioid prescribing balloons in Queensland

Recent research analysing the prescription of opioids to Queensland adults over a 21-year period found dispensing of the medicines increased by 11-fold.