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Don’t forget about tuberculosis

AP Staff - October 16, 2000

CPD

References World Health Organisation. Global tuberculosis report 2023 Geneva: World Health Organization. 2023. At: www.who.int/teams/global-tuberculosis-programme/tb-reports Anastasios K. Testing for tuberculosis. Australian Prescriber 2010;33(1):12 Communicable...

Slumber solutions?

AP Staff - October 17, 2000

Practice

References Sansom LN, ed. Australian pharmaceutical formulary and handbook. 26th edn. Canberra: Pharmaceutical Society of Australia; 2024. Sleep Health Foundation. Melatonin and children. 2023....

Summer of fun?

AP Staff - November 28, 2000

Advertorial

Denosumab for erosive hand osteoarthritis

AP Staff - October 16, 2000

Clinical

References Favero M, Belluzzi E, Ortolan A, et al. Erosive hand osteoarthritis: latest findings and outlook. Nat Rev Rheumatol 2022;18(3):171–83. Kloppenburg M, Kroon F....

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Pharmacists should have been involved in the vaccine rollout much sooner

Vaccination scope harmonisation needs to happen, NOW

Prescribing restrictions on ivermectin: wrong approach

Equity fail: Antivirals mainly went to the wealthy

Vaccination rates need an urgent boost

Australians won’t accept the same restrictions next time

The new CDC could re-engage Australians with vaccination, but pharmacists need to be engaged

Why are the changes occurring?

What’s occurring internationally?

Will the changes work?

Change 1: Pack sizes will shrink

Change 2: Bottles banished, blisters better

What are pharmacists’ workflow considerations?

What medicine safety messages should pharmacists be relaying?

How should patient counselling change?

1. Verifying requests for continued dispensing or emergency supply

2. Determining a post-discharge medicine plan when a patient presents a hospital prescription

3. Looking for missing vaccines in AIR history

4. Checking if a medicine is 'new' when you haven't dispensed it before

5. Finding a recent pathology test in a discharge summary

Pharmacists continue to lead COVID-19 and influenza vaccination

Childhood vaccination continues to drop below the critical 95% mark

Long way to go on meningococcal B protection

64% older Australians are unvaccinated against COVID-19, among other killer diseases

NIPVIP continues to improve vaccine access

Changes are underway for COVID-19 vaccination

Pharmacists should have been involved in the vaccine rollout much sooner

Vaccination scope harmonisation needs to happen, NOW

Prescribing restrictions on ivermectin: wrong approach

Equity fail: Antivirals mainly went to the wealthy

Vaccination rates need an urgent boost

Australians won’t accept the same restrictions next time

The new CDC could re-engage Australians with vaccination, but pharmacists need to be engaged

Why are the changes occurring?

What’s occurring internationally?

Will the changes work?

Change 1: Pack sizes will shrink

Change 2: Bottles banished, blisters better

What are pharmacists’ workflow considerations?

What medicine safety messages should pharmacists be relaying?

How should patient counselling change?

1. Verifying requests for continued dispensing or emergency supply

2. Determining a post-discharge medicine plan when a patient presents a hospital prescription

3. Looking for missing vaccines in AIR history

4. Checking if a medicine is 'new' when you haven't dispensed it before

5. Finding a recent pathology test in a discharge summary

Pharmacists continue to lead COVID-19 and influenza vaccination

Childhood vaccination continues to drop below the critical 95% mark

Long way to go on meningococcal B protection

64% older Australians are unvaccinated against COVID-19, among other killer diseases

NIPVIP continues to improve vaccine access

Changes are underway for COVID-19 vaccination

Pharmacists should have been involved in the vaccine rollout much sooner

Vaccination scope harmonisation needs to happen, NOW

Prescribing restrictions on ivermectin: wrong approach

Equity fail: Antivirals mainly went to the wealthy

Vaccination rates need an urgent boost

Australians won’t accept the same restrictions next time

The new CDC could re-engage Australians with vaccination, but pharmacists need to be engaged

Why are the changes occurring?

What’s occurring internationally?

Will the changes work?

Change 1: Pack sizes will shrink

Change 2: Bottles banished, blisters better

What are pharmacists’ workflow considerations?

What medicine safety messages should pharmacists be relaying?

How should patient counselling change?

1. Verifying requests for continued dispensing or emergency supply

2. Determining a post-discharge medicine plan when a patient presents a hospital prescription

3. Looking for missing vaccines in AIR history

4. Checking if a medicine is 'new' when you haven't dispensed it before

5. Finding a recent pathology test in a discharge summary

Pharmacists continue to lead COVID-19 and influenza vaccination

Childhood vaccination continues to drop below the critical 95% mark

Long way to go on meningococcal B protection

64% older Australians are unvaccinated against COVID-19, among other killer diseases

NIPVIP continues to improve vaccine access

Changes are underway for COVID-19 vaccination

Pharmacists should have been involved in the vaccine rollout much sooner

Vaccination scope harmonisation needs to happen, NOW