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Anticonvulsants shown not to provide low back pain benefits
Despite an increase in anticonvulsant use for back and neck pain recently - an increase of 535% in the last 10 years - researchers...
How pharmacists can help diagnose and manage cow’s milk allergy
Awareness is growing about childhood allergies, especially peanut allergy. But according to the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA), the symptoms of...
Keeping it renal
Outside his usual kidney care, renal pharmacist Lindon Clark can be found hiking and climbing around Queensland.
Decoding the lure of the bush
Recruitment is a perennial challenge for rural pharmacy. So what is being done to change this?
It will come as no surprise to many pharmacists...
Intervention reduces antipsychotic use in aged care
A pharmacist-led intervention targeted towards reducing the prevalence of sedative prescription in aged care has reduced antipsychotic prescribing by 13% and that of benzodiazepines...
Pharmacists reaffirm need to vaccinate, as flu strain mutates
Healthcare professionals have reaffirmed the importance of vaccines this flu season, after the mutation of the H3N2 strain rendered some vaccines less effective.
A spokesperson...
