Pharmacists’ role in U=U campaign: World AIDS Day
Pharmacists have an important role to play in spreading the message that Undetectable Equals Untransmittable (U=U) on World AIDS Day, 1 December, and beyond.
The...
Complementary medicines: Heart failure
Heart failure (HF), also referred to as congestive cardiac failure, is present in 1–2% of the Australian population.1 It is the end result of...
Health sector collaboration the key to improving medicine safety
Better use of existing funding, leveraging digital health and empowering consumers are the keys to improving medicine safety.
These were the main themes to come...
Medicine misadventure is common, reveals PSA
The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) has released a new report, Medicine Safety: Take Care, which highlights the extent of the unsafe use of...
Lack of evidence raises questions on long-term PPI use
There is rising concern over the side effects of long-term proton pump inhibitor (PPI) use but limited evidence to warrant discontinuation, a literature review...
PSA: embed pharmacists to reduce medicine harm in aged care
PSA has called for a national program that embeds pharmacists in all aged care facilities in its submission to the Royal Commission into Aged...
