What you missed at PSA22 – Day 2

PSA22 continued on Saturday with a wide-ranging line-up of award presentations, therapeutic updates and industry engagement opportunities.

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...

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.

Heavy conversations: pharmacy and the obesity epidemic

Pharmacists are in the front line of the obesity epidemic. But counselling patients on diet behaviour can have troubling consequences. Is it time for...

Fostering cultural safety

There are a few simple techniques that can go a long way toward making transgender and gender-diverse patients, as well as all LGBTQIA+ people, feel welcome and respected.

Digital first

Andrew Matthews MPS is the Australian Digital Health Agency’s Director of Medicines Safety. In that role, he hopes to ensure pharmacists are fundamental to healthcare’s digital future.