Why all patients should be using a spacer

Questions about spacers are abundant in community pharmacy. AP answers some of the trickiest ones pharmacists face.

A preventable tragedy that changed drug approval forever

Thalidomide’s period of use may have been short but its ramifications have lasted decades, both for people who suffer deformities from its effects and...

A pharmacist immuniser in the Apple Isle

Tasmanian pharmacist Christine White MPS has embraced immunisation in pharmacy, despite her own early hesitancy, and now considers the benefits ‘immense’.

The policymaker

Karen Castle MPS, PSA’s newest policy pharmacist, writes healthcare legislation and knows plenty about voluntary assisted dying requirements.

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...

Night moves

Dimitra Tsucalas FPS, co-owner of Ascot Vale Supercare Pharmacy, has seen it all. From late-night triage, shift workers, opioid seekers and everything in between,...