Lockdowns and vaccine confusion plague nation

As Australia sits on the knife’s edge of a national COVID-19 outbreak, authorities are scrambling to bolster vaccination rates. 

PSA pharmacists educate colleagues in PNG

PSA pharmacists share their clinical skills on diabetes, dengue fever and malaria. In an innovative initiative that bodes well for future collaboration between pharmacists in...

Just what the pharmacist ordered

Pharmacist prescribing is ‘imminent’, says PSA National President Dr Shane Jackson. So what could that mean for you and your patients? Pharmacists will have...

Greater pharmacist role in Aboriginal health trialled

Pharmacist-led health interventions in Aboriginal communities came under the spotlight at PSA18 in Sydney yesterday, as delegates got early insight into some of the...

Taking care: the different areas of medicine safety

In its landmark Medicine Safety: Take Care report, PSA identified the frightening cost of medicine misadventure in Australia. With medicines safety a central theme...

Managing children’s pain and fever with ibuprofen

Identifying and managing pain in children is a vital role for pharmacists. Commonly encountered paediatric pain can be categorised as pain associated with infection...