Should smartwatches be used in chronic disease management?

Tech savvy patients are using smartwatches in chronic disease management via health tracking apps and synchronised monitoring devices.

A year of growth for most

As 2019 draws to a close, seven pharmacists from around the country reflect on the year that was, and look to what 2020 has...

Information on Commonwealth, state and territory statutory declarations

  JURISDICTION DEPARTMENT FORM Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department www.ag.gov.au/legal-system/ statutory-declarations www.ag.gov.au/node/2838 New South Wales Department of Communities and Justice www.jp.nsw.gov.au/Documents/ witnessing-legal-documents- remotely-jp-factsheet.pdf www.jp.nsw.gov.au/Pages/ justices-of-the-peace/nsw- statutory-declaration.aspx Northern Territory Northern Territory Government www.nt.gov.au/law/processes/ statutory-declarations www.nt.gov.au/__data/ assets/word_doc/0011/ 167933/statutory-declaration.docx Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney-General www.justice.qld.gov.au/initiatives /documents-during-covid/ statutory-declarations South Australia Attorney-General’s Department www.agd.sa.gov.au/jp-covid-updates www.agd.sa.gov.au/sites/ default/files/0007_jphandbook_v6_web.pdf (pp. 19–21 and 61–64) www.agd.sa.gov.au/sites/ default/files/south_australian _statutory_declaration_form.pdf Tasmania Department of Justice www.justice.tas.gov.au/forms /statutory_declarations www.justice.tas.gov.au/ forms/statutory_declarations Victoria Department of...

Improving your professional brand as a pharmacist

Looking to explore new opportunities or build out your professional networks? AP has some tips to show your working self on social media.

Bedtime without benzodiazepines and ‘ZZZ-drugs’

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Pharmacists can play a variety of roles in the quality use of medicines for insomnia, such as benzodiazepine receptor agonists.

Pharmacists must urge patients to get vaccinated against COVID-19

Winter might be over but that doesn’t mean the COVID-19 pandemic is, warns the Immunisation Coalition in a new vaccination campaign.