Symbion support in 2021
Symbion-owned community pharmacy retail programs healthSAVE and Pharmacy Choice have launched their 2021 Member Program The 2021 Member Program is centred on three pillars of community, care and convenience. Symbion …
Pharmacists integral to safe, quality care
Clear patient safety measures have emerged from the later stages of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, which SHPA says are aligned with its recommendations The inclusion …
CWH arrives in Europe
Chemist Warehouse has broken into the European market Chemist Warehouse has celebrated the opening of its first store in Europe, in Blanchardstown, Ireland. The new addition joins more than 450 …
Research Roundup
Debbie Rigby rounds up the latest in research news Effectiveness of Curcuma longa Extract for the Treatment of Symptoms and Effusion–Synovitis of Knee Osteoarthritis A single-center study with 70 patients …
Melatonin—its role in your life. Part 1: Biosynthesis, regulation, physiology and pharmacology
The recent TGA decision to down-schedule melatonin in modified release tablets containing 2mg or less of melatonin for the short-term treatment of primary insomnia, and approval for it to be …
Mo Foes for PSS
AJP’s editor will be growing a moustache in November to raise money for the Pharmacists’ Support Service Pharmacists have been pushed to their limits in 2020, with the Pharmacy Support …
‘There are no prizes for dispensing huge numbers of scripts or working long hours without a break.’
AJP speaks with 2020 Pharmacist of the Year Kay Dunkley about how she came to be at the forefront of practitioner wellbeing Last month, Kay Dunkley was named Pharmacist of …
Another angry patient smashes up a pharmacy
A man has been charged after he allegedly smashed a COVID screen into a pharmacist’s face, as a Victorian pharmacist recounts an incident of violence at her own store The …
50-year-old pharmacy to close: and a call to landlords
“I can’t be out by five – I can’t pack up the pharmacy,” says Anja Faustein, owner of the Elizabeth Street Pharmacy in Melbourne, on Monday morning – only days …
Pharmacist pinged for importing masks
The TGA has issued an infringement notice for $2,664 to a Sydney-based pharmacist for the alleged unlawful importation of medical face masks in relation to COVID-19 The pharmacist allegedly breached …
It’s just not cricket
Wearing varieties of beige may have worked for a former Australian cricket captain, but a beige pharmacy won’t survive or prosper, say Bruce Annabel and Mal Scrymgeour Cricket is an …
Changing concepts: Allergic Rhinitis
The concept of how we manage allergic rhinitis in the community is shifting, thanks to a growing understanding of patients’ perceptions and behaviour regarding treatment Allergic rhinitis is a common …