Australian Pharmacist

Last year, the TGA made an interim decision to reschedule Rikodeine to a prescription medicine. Why hasn’t it happened yet?

Data shows orally ingested phenylephrine is ineffective, so why does it continue to be purchased over pseudoephedrine?

The changes to ongoing Continued Dispensing arrangements after the expiry of the emergency measure came as a shock to many pharmacists.

On 1 October 2025, the TGA scheduled methenamine hippurate as a Pharmacist Only medicine to ensure pharmacist oversight of its use.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has reviewed their proposal to upschedule all alkyl nitrites to Schedule 9 (S9), but pharmacists will need to ensure...

In an Australian first, pharmacists can now adapt prescriptions to solve problems with medicines – no doctor sign-off required.