Ensuring safer opioid systems

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Opioid analgesic stewardship is now a national medicines safety priority, targeting preventable harm across acute settings and transitions to community care.

Cost of asthma treatment – a deterrent to use

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Cost is a major factor associated with non-adherence to asthma treatment in Australia, recent research revealed. Healthcare providers can assist patients with adherence by...

Cap on HMR numbers relaxed this week

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Accredited pharmacists can provide up to 30 Home Medicine Review (HMR) services per month from this week (1 March 2020).

Rural healthcare advocate honoured

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NSW pharmacist Anna Barwick MPS was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2025 Australia Day Honours. 

Systemic corticosteroids for dyspnoea

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The effectiveness of systemic corticosteroids for the management of dyspnoea in adults with advanced cancer. Dyspnoea affects almost 70% of advanced cancer patients at the...

Coronavirus: Australia ‘alert but not alarmed’

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‘Precautionary and active surveillance’ is required to manage the risk of a novel coronavirus outbreak in China, Australia’s Chief Medical Officer Professor Brendan Murphy...