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Each Australian state and territory has different rules around when, how and where you can access contraception. Two researchers unpack the details.
NZ’s primary care model rewards volume over complexity. Properly funding high-need patients would make the system safer and more sustainable.
Some medical errors are unreported or even unknown to patients. Only those that result in severe complications and death are known and reported.
Controversies often arise over pharmacists refusing to dispense medication, from Plan B to unproven COVID-19 treatments. Each one raises questions about professional rights and responsibilities.
Australia is awash with policies, but not the kind that would fix the workforce crisis. Here’s what would work instead.
The pharmacist will see you now. Will a proposal for pharmacists to work out of GP clinics really work? Here’s what we know so far.
Before changes to the Fair Work Act, almost all attempts by unions to address gender pay inequity failed.
60-day scrips can mean fewer trips to the pharmacist and lower costs. But only one in five eligible scripts are for a 60-day supply. Here’s what’s going wrong.
Thousands of American pharmacies have shuttered over the past five years.
In the majority of cases, medications help patients. But even when treatment of individual illnesses is effective, treatment as a whole can become problematic.
We now have a sensible pathway to improve access to health care, using the skills of nurses, pharmacists and GPs appropriately.
There is no legal duty to tell a patient they have been prescribed a drug ‘off label’.
Older people and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are at much greater risk of hospitalisation from UTI. Prompt medical care is important.
Struggling with watery, itchy red eyes and a runny, congested nose? Here are your options for hay fever treatment.
A new review of Australian health care workers’ scope of practice should focus on expanding pharmacists prescribing for stable conditions and long-term medications, under the direction of a GP.
With the approval of the first over-the-counter oral contraceptive, pharmacists stand to play an ever-increasing role in helping expand access to reproductive health care in the post-Roe era.
The proposed plans will likely benefit patients – but only if more is done to ensure pharmacists can provide these additional services.
Being able to tell the difference between good quality medicines and fakes can be a matter of life and death.
Clinics without pharmacist assistants were more likely to have erratic medicine supply management practices.
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Associate Professor of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh
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Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Macquarie University
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Director and Taylor Family Chair, Centre for the Business & Economics of Health, The University of Queensland
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Palliative Medicine Physician, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Pittsburgh
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Researcher, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University
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Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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Professor of Medicine and Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz
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Research Platform Chair for Pharmaceutical and Biotech Advancement in Africa (PBA2), Tshwane University of Technology
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Lecturer in Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Adelaide University
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Professor, The Children's Hospital at Westmead Clinical School and Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute, University of Sydney
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Professor of Health Psychology in Pharmacy Practice, Swansea University