The new women’s health initiatives, explained

Over the weekend, the Albanese Government announced a $573 million commitment to national women’s health initiatives, to bipartisan support.

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.

Hospital pharmacists: what they are doing now

Hospital pharmacists working in the hospital setting were once limited to the dispensary. This has now evolved further to specialisations.

The role of pharmacists in travel vaccination

Many travellers delay vaccinations due to costs and access issues. Pharmacists play a vital role in providing preventive care.

Vic lockdowns impact essential medication review services

With COVID-19 outbreaks in one in four Victorian residential aged care facilities, many older people are at risk not only from the pandemic, but from a lack of medicine safety.

Why are so many children harmed from medicines?

Medication errors and poisonings are leading to a staggering number of avoidable hospitalisations among children and adolescents.