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This is a pivotal time for policymakers to be vigilant about drug shortages and to ensure that Canadians have reliable access to safe drugs.
The UK government is allowing care homes and hospices to reuse leftover medicines during the pandemic. Here’s why that’s a good thing.
Testing everyone for COVID-19 isn’t realistic in a country the size of the US, but there are ways to design testing systems that can catch most of the cases.
As the health care system tries to solve the crisis in care around the coronavirus, pharmacists stand ready to help, but they face limits.
As coronavirus continues to spread, older adults face a challenge: how to get the medications they need without putting themselves at risk. A new national survey shows they aren’t prepared.
Pharmacies are essential services and will remain open, but some people will still have problems accessing medicines. Here’s what you can do.
PODCAST: The third part of a series from The Anthill podcast on how personalised medicine may become in the future.
There are cost-effective solutions to the problem of sub-standard drugs in Nigeria and other low-income countries.
The convenience of digital consultations can be compelling. But these services aren’t without risk – especially when people don’t interact directly with a health-care professional.
The Pharmacy Guild represents the owners of community pharmacies around the country. Their reach into every community and large political donations make them more powerful than other lobby groups.
Prominent GP and former MP Kerryn Phelps has weighed into the doctor-pharmacist turf war, saying pharmacists shouldn’t prescribe because of their financial interests. But the evidence says otherwise.
During bushfire season, managing medication as well as respiratory conditions should be part of any emergency plan.
Pharmacies are paid a set amount to dispense most medicines, so the more they dispense, the greater their income. But there’s a better way to pay pharmacists and improve health care at the same time.
You no longer have to go to your GP to get your flu shot or catch up on vaccinations you missed earlier in life or have waning immunity to. But they’re unlikely to be free.
When codeine became a prescription only drug in 2018, the number of overdoses dropped, our new research shows. But restricting sales of codeine is only one way to reduce harm from opioids.
Clinical trials are used to establish that medicines work. But these don’t take into account the genetic differences between us that can mean very different outcomes for different patients.
If Australia follows international trends and allows supermarkets to open pharmacies, what are the effects on neighbouring pharmacies? And when does running a business mean health care suffers?
The ‘turf war’ between doctors and pharmacists we see in current debates has a long history.
Only pharmacists can own a pharmacy and you can’t set one up within 1.5km of an existing one. But calls to loosen these rules could give health companies a green light to set up more chemist chains.
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Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Macquarie University
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Head of School and Dean of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
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Lecturer Pharmacy Practice, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Senior lecturer, School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
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Associate professor, Sydney Pharmacy School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Pharmacy, Queensland University of Technology
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Health activist, Medreach Pty Ltd., Bond University
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Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy Practice, University of Connecticut
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Palliative Medicine Physician, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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University of Oxford
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Director and Taylor Family Chair, Centre for the Business & Economics of Health, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh