A prescription for a safer festive season

With the festive season in full swing, pharmacists are at the forefront of helping patients navigate holiday health challenges.

Dapagliflozin for infertility for women with obesity

This glucose-lowering diabetes drug may have therapeutic benefits and clinical utility for people with reproductive dysfunction.

Is combined NRT therapy the best bet for smoking cessation?

Groundbreaking new research has found that current smokers are three times more likely to die from cardiovascular disease (CVD), but these risks greatly decrease...

Opioid therapy challenges in rural Australia

For more than a decade, healthcare workers in rural and remote areas have been aware of the rising incidence of non-prescribed opioid medicines use....

Burning need for change

Climate change is the most pressing health issue of our time. Pharmacists need to recognise and address this before it’s too late.

The policymaker

Karen Castle MPS, PSA’s newest policy pharmacist, writes healthcare legislation and knows plenty about voluntary assisted dying requirements.