How can pharmacists fight waste?
The healthcare sector was recently called out for the devastating levels of waste generated from single-use plastics and medicines. Both hospital and community pharmacists...
Opioid therapy challenges in rural Australia
For more than a decade, healthcare workers in rural and remote areas have been aware of the rising incidence of non-prescribed opioid medicines use....
Meningococcal vaccines
Meningococcal disease is an acute bacterial infection that can affect the brain and spinal cord (meningitis), or the blood (septicaemia); whilst some patients can...
Boosting childhood vaccination rates in the holidays
With only two weeks before school resumes, now is the ideal time for pharmacists to help parents catch up with vaccinations for their children.
Report highlights need for improved medicine management
A new report investigating polypharmacy among older Australians emphasises the need for greater pharmacist involvement in medicine management.
The report, led by the University of Western...
Probiotics for ‘chemo brain’
Affordable and convenient probiotics may help prevent cancer-related cognitive impairment.
