Australian Pharmacist

The Easter long weekend is a busy time of year for pharmacists. But 2024 could be the busiest yet, as a major policy change is set to occur.

On 1 October 2025, the TGA scheduled methenamine hippurate as a Pharmacist Only medicine to ensure pharmacist oversight of its use.

In an Australian first, pharmacists can now adapt prescriptions to solve problems with medicines – no doctor sign-off required.

As regulatory bodies restrict or ban carisoprodol, the highly addictive but effective muscle relaxant still dominates the US prescription drug market. Carisoprodol, marketed in the...

Celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow espoused alleged health benefits from ingesting colloidal silver. However, no rigorous studies supporting these claims exist.

A new PIMs list unveiled medicines that could result in negative clinical outcomes, including hospitalisation and death in older patients.