Guardian knits for good
Guardian is celebrating another successful year of its annual ‘Guardian Angel Knitting for Good’ program Together with St Vincent de Paul Society, the banner group has organised more than 40 …
Top of the list
Community pharmacists will be among the first to administer initial doses of the Moderna vaccine from next month, PM confirms Pharmacy groups have welcomed the TGA’s provisional approval of Moderna’s …
Research Roundup
Debbie Rigby rounds up the latest in research news High Use of SABAs is Associated with Higher Exacerbation Rate Dutch data from the REALISE survey of adults with asthma shows …
Mystery of the missing meds
A Tribunal has heard of a pharmacist’s “flagrant” breaches of obligation including dispensing drugs of addiction on forged scripts, being unable to account for thousands of Endone and Duromine tablets, …
Keeping you in the loop
The pharmacy event calendar continues to suffer from pandemic- related cancellations. However, there is good news on the horizon Here’s a rundown of some of the latest developments in the …
$16 for jab ‘won’t even cover the wages.’
One pharmacy assistant has written to Labor politicians with a plea for better financial support in the vaccine rollout Sydney pharmacy assistant Eleanor Turnbull has written an open letter to …
Scarcity drives pharmacy substitution
Community pharmacists are now able to substitute Actemra formulations without prior prescriber approval, due to serious shortages Two tocilizumab (Actemra) formulations are now effectively interchangeable at the pharmacy level after …
Green light for Moderna
TGA grants provisional approval to Moderna, while the government secures a shipment of COVID-19 treatment sotrovimab as another tool in its arsenal to fight the pandemic The TGA has granted …
Turning the tide
While many of pharmacy’s fundamentals remain unchanged, adjusting for the major trends is essential for businesses to survive Shortly before dawn, on a crisp August morning in 1875, Captain Matthew …
The week in review
Perhaps unsurprisingly, COVID-19 vaccination was the talk of the pharmacy sector this week On Friday a major change to the vaccine rollout was announced: all eligible pharmacies are now to …
$60k stolen drug, formula profit paid for pharmacist’s coke habit
A pharmacist said he was at “rock bottom,” grieving and addicted to cocaine when he sold HIV drugs for his own personal gain In March 2019, the Sydney pharmacist’s registration …
Probiotics: does the hype exceed the evidence?
Despite the growing interest in probiotics, what does the evidence tell us and what advice should pharmacists be giving their customers? It seems that rising awareness of the link between …