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.

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...

Medication reviews and dementia

Dementia includes a range of neurological disorders characterised by memory loss and cognitive impairment. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, accounting...

World Antibiotic Awareness Week 2019

Almost 10% of residents in aged care facilities were prescribed an antimicrobial, mostly commonly cefalexin and clotrimazole, but the majority had no documented signs...

Managing medicines on Country

Associate Professor Bhavini Patel has driven Northern Territory medicines reform through cultural respect and clinical leadership.

How pharmacists are reducing chemical restraint

For years it seemed impossible to achieve, but markedly reducing chemical restraint is on its way.