Preparing for the 2024 ‘tripledemic’

Now is the time to arm Australians with vaccines, respiratory disease advice, testing and essential medicines to get ahead of respiratory ailment season. The trifecta...

A thiazolidinedione for hepatitis B

Thiazolidinediones may hold the key to developing a new class of anti-HBV medicines that will cure the chronic infection.

Maria Berbecaru extended interview

Just 3 years out of university, in 2019 Maria Berbecaru MPS made history by implementing Australia's first integrated community pharmacy-delivered medicine supply and on-site...

Oral Antihyperglycaemics for COPD exacerbations

Emerging evidence is pointing to the benefits of ‘novel’ antihyperglycaemics on lung function in COPD patients.

Are unconscious gender biases widening the Australian gender pain gap?

References Filingim R. Individual differences in pain: understanding the mosaic that makes pain personal. Pain 2017;158(Suppl 1):S11–S18. Widemann TH, Edwards RR, Walton DM, et...

Waiting to inhale

Annoyed by her glass squeeze-bulb nebuliser, 13-year old asthmatic Susie Maison asked "Daddy why can't they put my asthma medicine in a spray can?"