Australian Pharmacist

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

Victoria is the latest state to announce ADHD reforms, with ‘specialist GPs’ now able to continue ADHD prescriptions for existing patients.

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.

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.

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