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 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.’
The TGA’s position on oral phenylephrine as a nasal decongestant
The TGA is aware that the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee met in September 2023 to discuss the available...
Closing the Gap starts at the pharmacy counter
This National Close the Gap Day (19 March), experts highlight the important role pharmacists play in supporting and promoting equal access.
Improving medicines safety at transitions of care
Transitions of care are periods of high risk for medication errors and miscommunication, leading to patient harm.
Pharmacists could prescribe PrEP to combat HIV transmission
Under a new national government strategy, pharmacists will be key to dramatically reducing HIV transmission.
