Australian Pharmacist

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

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

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.

While chlorpromazine’s use on people with schizophrenia has been overtaken by atypical antipsychotics, it is still used widely.

A paediatric oncologist explains how pharmacists can spot the early warning signs of childhood brain cancer and save lives.

Pharmacists who want to make a difference to the lives of Indigenous patients need to listen and learn what is important to them, says Northern Territory pharmacist Jaimee Anderson MPS.