In Depth
AJP chats with… Verity Boustead
Verity is a student Covid vaccine preparer, helped launch a new journal and while she’s “no MasterChef”, she makes a mean loaded nachos! Getting to know the new NAPSA President …
The long and winding road
How can pharmacy find its ‘Picasso moment’ and break through its constraints to find a pathway that benefits patients, pharmacists and pharmacies? In the 1960s and the 1970s, The Beatles …
Clinical tips: Self-diagnosed thrush
Jala Moushi looks into a fairly common pharmacy experience: a patient who presents with self-diagnosed vaginal thrush Everything that itches is not vaginal thrush: The case of self-diagnosed vaginal …
Keeping up with biosimilars
Pharmacy has a prominent role in the supply and provision of biosimilar medicines, and the profession has been slow to come to terms with this. Is the situation now changing? …
Pharmacy suffers from rabbit poison sale
July 1921: Did the Pharmacy Board approve a shopkeeper’s sales of cheap strychnine, harming pharmacists ‘in the public estimation’? The July 1921 edition of AJP included a report on “an …
One on one: Mark and Nick
“He’s definitely not the Luke Skywalker to my Yoda”: How this pharmacy owner approaches mentorship in a collaborative way with his former intern turned pharmacist Welcome to AJP’s series on …
Who benefits from health care?
Anthony Tassone refutes article that labels the Guild and AMA as Australia’s “biggest, ugliest and most militant unions” A recent article in The Spectator by Stephen Spartacus asked, “Who benefits …
Research Roundup
Debbie Rigby takes a look at the latest in research news Statin associated lower cancer risk and related mortality in patients with heart failure Patients with heart failure (HF) have …
The COVID impact
How has COVID affected pharmacy valuations? John Thornett gives his three key learnings to date from 2021 valuations You see there is this thing called COVID. You may have heard …
Managing children’s pain
Recognising the true extent of a child’s pain is vital, as is selecting the appropriate treatment, and advising on adjunct non-pharmacological treatment strategies In a pharmacy setting, children experiencing mild, …
A new frontier
How pharmacists can play a leading role on the mental health frontline As well as being a Monash University master’s student, Kevin Ou also works in a community pharmacy in …
ADHD in adults
Pharmacists should be aware of the treatment options for ADHD conditions in adults, writes Carlene McMaugh Attention deficit disorders, hyperactivity disorders, and combined attention/hyperactivity disorders in adults may not be …