Maintaining medicine integrity in high temperatures

As temperatures soar, ensuring proper storage of medicines is more critical than ever. Here’s how heat impacts medicine safety and how pharmacists and patients can safeguard their efficacy.

The management of acute wounds commonly seen in community pharmacy

Pharmacists can confidently implement wound management principles to identify, assess, manage and know when to refer for specific wounds.

Here’s what PSA thinks pharmacists should earn by 2023

A new report has laid out PSA’s vision for exactly what roles pharmacists should be taking in patient-care positions, along with how those roles...

The pharmacist and the world surf champ

It’s not every day you ride into work on a jet ski with an Australian surfing legend, but Skye Swift MPS did just that after devastating floods swept through the northern New South Wales town of Murwillumbah.

EC options underutilised by pharmacists

Community pharmacists could more frequently give patients a choice between the two emergency contraception drugs available in Australia. The mystery shopper exercise conducted by University...

Final scheduling changes for modified release paracetamol

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has made a final decision on the rescheduling of modified release (MR) paracetamol due to safety concerns.  The safety of...