Breast cancer awareness more important than ever
This Breast Cancer Awareness month, pharmacists should urge women to remain vigilant about screening after months of lockdown for many.
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.
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....
Australia’s rise in accidental drug-induced overdoses
As the rate of accidental prescribed drug-induced overdoses continues to climb, pharmacists have an increased responsibility to focus on early intervention.
The Penington Institute’s Australia’s...
Pharmacists deliver on all fronts
Two PSA members will join the Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Michael Kidd on the National Medicines Policy Review Committee, due to start work next month.