Expanding vaccination
Pharmacists should be able to immunise for more diseases, as well as for COVID-19.
Options to change pharmacy’s future
The Interim Report of the Review of Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation (RPRR) arrived on 22 June and the world of pharmacy as we know...
Q&A: Use of antibiotics in COPD
Early initiation of an antibiotic for a COPD flare-up can prevent further damage to the airways, prevent hospitalisation, reduce the risk of further exacerbations, and allow people to regain symptom control.
Shameful: an under-served cohort
It is everyone’s responsibility to protect people with disability from medicine harm. We must all do more.
Disabilities, which can be impairments, activity limitations and...
A bitter pill to beat malaria
Quinine’s use in treating malaria is linked to the expansion of European colonisation over the last 400 years.
Quinine is derived from the bark of...
Hot cocoa for MS-related fatigue
While far more research is necessary, recent initial evidence points to diet-based, flavenoid-rich cocoa or dark chocolate having beneficial effects on the fatigue of...
