Is technology helping make medicine use in Australia safer?

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After chairing the Medication Safety and Efficiency Conference, Deborah Hawthorne reflects on whether digital health is making care safer.

Weighing up options for osteoarthritis management

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Osteoarthritis is a common condition that is expected to become even more prevalent by the end of the decade. Despite its commonness, our understanding of the disease has evolved to acknowledge inflammation as a mediator of degenerative changes and pain.

Beyond sleep hygiene

Sleep hygiene is often used to manage insomnia, despite evidence-based guidelines recommending CBTi as a first-line treatment.

Hot topics at the 2019 FIP Congress

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Medicine access, technological disruption to traditional care models, ethical dilemmas and gender equity dominated the program for the 79th International Pharmacy Federation (FIP) Congress. The...

Rethinking pharmacy conversations on asthma care

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Pharmacy interventions in asthma management can be difficult because patients often don’t understand the underlying nature of the condition.

Shameful: an under-served cohort

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It is everyone’s responsibility to protect people with disability from medicine harm. We must all do more. Disabilities, which can be impairments, activity limitations and...