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).
What Home Medicines Reviews could look like in the future
Credentialed Pharmacist of the Year Angus Thompson MPS reflects on the importance of HMRs and how he would like to see the service develop.
Medicines nightmare in aged care
While aged care quality and safety has been put under the microscope at the royal commission, the nightmare continues for residents at risk from their prescribed medicines every single day.
Cheaper and more effective acute stroke treatment
Tenecteplase may replace alteplase as the thrombolytic of choice when treating ischemic stroke, according to an Australian study published in The New England Journal...
Pharmacy intern connects generations during pandemic
Pharmacy intern Tahlia Parisella took an innovative approach to her public health promotion during the pandemic.
Bedtime without benzodiazepines and ‘ZZZ-drugs’
Pharmacists can play a variety of roles in the quality use of medicines for insomnia, such as benzodiazepine receptor agonists.













