Running for the shelter of a ‘mother’s little helper’

The popularisation of meprobamate from the 1950s onwards ushered in the dawn of the psychopharmacological era where patients began to look to doctors to...

How PSA’s NSW Intern of the Year went from farm to...

It’s a fair way from the sheep farm in South Australia to working at five pharmacies in outback Broken Hill, New South Wales. Meet Blake McCallum, PSA’s 2022 NSW Intern of the Year.

Perth pharmacy owner is PSA’s new WA Branch President

From community pharmacy to wedding photographer and a burgeoning bubble tea store empire – PSA’s new Western Australian (WA) Branch President Keegan Wong MPS brings passion to everything he does.

The non-binary pharmacist

Michael Hewson [he/him] identifies as a genderqueer or non-binary person. ‘I don’t feel like a man and I don’t feel like a woman. I’m just Michael and that’s all I need to be.’

Working on the land

After decades as a specialist compounder in Bundaberg, Brendan West MPS moved inland to buy a pharmacy in the outback Queensland town of Wallumbilla.

The COVID-era pharmacist

For Lauren Haworth MPS, opening a pharmacy as a global pandemic hit was not great timing. But it was invaluable experience en route to her dream of owning a pharmacy by the age of 30.