Source – Pregabalin prescribing patterns in Australian general practice, 2012–2018: a cross-sectional study[/caption]
National Medicines Symposium 2024 speakers (L to R): Steve Waller, Professor Jennifer Martin, Professor Libby Roughead, Tegan Taylor[/caption]
This CPD activity is sponsored by Reckitt. All content is the true, accurate and independent opinion of the speakers and the views expressed are entirely their own.[/caption]
Cap on HMR numbers relaxed this week
Accredited pharmacists can provide up to 30 Home Medicine Review (HMR) services per month from this week (1 March 2020).
Inside a multidisciplinary antenatal vaccination clinic
To protect pregnant women and their unborn babies from the severe adverse outcomes associated with the virus, the first pharmacist-led COVID-19 vaccination clinic for pregnant women opened in Western Australia’s King Edward Memorial Hospital on 20 September.
Big Visions: from pharmacy to charity work
After more than 20 years in pharmacy, Zimbabwe-born Simon Carroll MPS was ready for a change: he sold his nine pharmacies, completed a master’s...
Psychotropic self-poisoning on the rise in youth
A new retrospective cohort study has found that self-poisoning, by ingesting psychotropic medicines, in Australian children and adolescents is increasing. The prescribed medicines...
Fungal foot infections
The feet and toenails are prone to a variety of infections, as they are frequently exposed to a moist environment through the regular use...
How to manage neuropathic pain
Neuropathic pain is defined as ‘pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system’.1
It is associated with impaired quality of...
