Software as a (community) service

A head for business and a desire to improve medicine safety inspired PSA Life Member Rob Richards to develop a digital opioid substitution therapy system that helps pharmacists and patients.

Q&A: Use of antibiotics in COPD

Early initiation of an antibiotic for a COPD flare-up can prevent further damage to the airways, prevent hospitalisation, reduce the risk of further exacerbations, and allow people to regain symptom control.

Slumber solutions?

When 5-minute conversations can be the gift of hours and hours of better sleep.

A bitter pill to beat malaria

Quinine’s use in treating malaria is linked to the expansion of European colonisation over the last 400 years. Quinine is derived from the bark of...

From tea leaves to the world

Despite its flaws, theophylline remains available in Australia.

A combined career

Thanks to a midlife career change, PSA’s 2024 ECP of the Year Jackie Lockley MPS feels she is exactly where she’s meant to be.