Preventing harm: medicine safety in children

Medicine safety in children requires vigilance, clear communication and proactive intervention by pharmacists to prevent accidental poisonings.

A breast cancer drug for seizures

Status epilepticus is a medical emergency. It is commonly defined as 30 minutes of continuous seizure activity, or repeated seizures without full recovery of...

Pharmacists recognised as Queen’s Birthday honourees

The Queen’s Birthday honourees included seven pharmacists, acknowledging their diverse contributions to the profession, and speaks to pharmacy’s impact in healthcare. The pharmacists recognised represented...

Government commits $25m to medicine safety research

The federal Government will invest $25 million in research to improve the safe use of medicines and medicines intervention by pharmacists.

From the President: PSA at the FIP World Congress in Seville,...

I have just returned from FIP’s World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Seville, where PSA CEO Mark Kinsela, PSA Senior Pharmacist Peter...

Solutions for minimising medicine stockpiling

Many pharmacists have likely come across expired medicines, kept 'just in case' for later use. But stockpiling can create a number of medicine safety risks.