Making medicine safety a National Health Priority Area

The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s (PSA) two recently released reports, Pharmacists in 2023 and Medicine Safety: Take Care, both identify the need for medicine...

How QLD’s Chief Health Officer got the COVID message out

Attendees at PSA’s 2021 Queensland Annual Therapeutic Update were treated to a packed program, including an address from Queensland’s Chief Health Officer.

What defined pharmacy practice in 2025?

The most-read stories of the year highlight where clinical practice, regulation and professional reform collided. From sweeping Therapeutic Guidelines updates to unresolved scheduling decisions and...

Community connections help this rural pharmacy thrive in trying times

In the rural New South Wales (NSW) town of Forbes, population 8,400, close relationships with their customers are helping the team at Flannery’s Pharmacy thrive in unusual times.

Early elixir: Caffeine, the most widely used psychoactive drug in the...

It’s effective, cheap, legal and relatively safe. Caffeine is the most widely consumed psychoactive drug in the world.

The business of pharmacy: tensions in retail healthcare

Researchers in New Zealand have explored the perceived tension in pharmacy between their roles as retailers and healthcare providers, and how such tension is...