Parkinson’s on the ropes
Pharmacist Adrian Unger MPS was in his 50s when a young woman came into his pharmacy in Chatswood NSW, asked for bandages and set...
Q&A: Helping vaccine hesitant patients
Helping patients work through concerns or hesitation for vaccination requires more than the provision of factual information.
Pharmacists could play key role in clinical trial recruitment
Public knowledge of where to access resources for patient clinical trials could be supported by pharmacists, a contributor to pharmacy policy has said.
Mitch Kirkman,...
Pharmacist of all trades
Distinguished Professor Gregory Peterson FPS has co-owned two pharmacies, been a hospital pharmacist and advised Sigma Pharmaceuticals. Now it’s teaching, research and other varied...
Real-time prescription monitoring and medicine safety
Real-time prescription monitoring systems such as SafeScript are empowering pharmacists to improve medicine safety – a key insight gleaned from PSA’s recent VIC/TAS Annual...
Pharmacists’ skills a perfect match for Indigenous healthcare
To mark NAIDOC Week (4–11 July), an embedded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander aged care pharmacist explains why pharmacists are adept at delivering respectful and appropriate services to the community.
