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.

Preparing to vaccinate children under 12 against COVID-19

On 5 December, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) provisionally approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children over 5 years of age.

Pharmacists could prescribe PrEP to combat HIV transmission

Under a new national government strategy, pharmacists will be key to dramatically reducing HIV transmission.

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.

Are you using My Health Record to optimise patient care?

PSA Digital health lead Jarrod McMaugh MPS shares the top ways My Health Record makes every day easier for pharmacists.