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How pharmacists can promote safe sex amongst young people
A new survey from researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has revealed changing trends in safe sex practises amongst 15–29 year...
Improving patient health literacy
The evidence is in: positive health outcomes can hinge on patients’ ability to understand health information – and on pharmacists’ ability to impart it.
Health...
Safe hands: minimising antipsychotic use in the elderly
Concerns over the overuse of antipsychotics in Residential Aged Care Facilities have reached a high tide – but so have efforts to address the...
Oxybutynin for hot flashes when hormones can’t be used
Can oxybutynin be useful for some patients who are unsuited for hormonal pharmacotherapy?
Some people might describe hot flashes as an unannounced and brief...
Making medicine safety a National Health Priority Area
The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s (PSA) two recently released reports, Pharmacists in 2023 and Medicine Safety: Take Care, both identify the need for medicine...
Vaccination hesitancy top threat to global health
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has listed vaccination hesitancy as one of it’s top 10 threats to global health in 2019, alongside climate change,...
How to manage neuropathic pain
Neuropathic pain is defined as ‘pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system’.1
It is associated with impaired quality of...
Pharmacists’ role in U=U campaign: World AIDS Day
Pharmacists have an important role to play in spreading the message that Undetectable Equals Untransmittable (U=U) on World AIDS Day, 1 December, and beyond.
The...
CAMs for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common disorder affecting the small intestine and colon.
There is no underlying structural or biochemical explanation for the...
Australia excels on the global pharmacy stage
Australian pharmacy professionals have received top honours at the 78th FIP World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Glasgow, while PSA has been...