Denmark and Britain take the same pills for old age. The gap is in ‘drugs for despair’.
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Your genes can affect how some medicines work. A reusable result could help doctors prescribe more safely, alongside other clinical evidence.
An increasing number of Australians take multiple medications, increasing the risk of misuse and harm. But there is currently no centralised way to track prescriptions.
Many health symptoms can be caused by multiple illnesses – if AI can’t tell the difference between them, it won’t be able to operate accurately without human oversight.
Medicines rules every traveller should know.
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.
If you want to know more about a drug, Health Canada provides information online through several websites. However, some information appears to be getting harder to find.
New research shows the massive gap between those with ADHD and the number of people who are prescribed the medicine that can help.
Growing evidence shows industry payments to doctors play a key role in unethical pharmaceutical marketing. New Zealand’s disclosure scheme fails to capture all companies and payment types.
The price you pay at the pharmacy for your long-term medicines may effectively halve. But not all medicines or patients qualify.
Don’t be intimidated by the package insert that comes with your medication. Learning how to read it can help you better understand how drugs work.
Online and phone consultations might ease pressure on local clinics and mean you can access paperwork when visiting a GP isn’t possible. But there are downsides to be aware of too.
Prescriptions for ADHD medications have doubled in the last decade in Australia. Medication is the best treatment for ADHD, however non-medicated treatments are also helpful.
People who need the most health care – the poor and the chronically ill – miss out on care the most. But there are ways to reduce this inequity.
The language used to describe medications is confusing, with multiple names for the same drug. A change to prescribing rules from today should go a long way to addressing this issue.
A private market should have no place in the rollout of a COVID vaccine.
Another use for your smartphone, this time to present to the pharmacists rather than a paper prescription.
A new Nice guidance suggests exercise, talk therapy and acupuncture to treat chronic pain. Where does this leave those dependent on painkillers?
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Lecturer Pharmacy Practice, University of Sydney
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Senior lecturer, School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
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Associate professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto; York University, Canada; University of Sydney
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Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Macquarie University
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Professor in Pharmaceutical Policy, School of Pharmacy and Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney
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Head of School and Dean of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago
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The University of Queensland
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Senior associate, Grattan Institute
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Palliative Medicine Physician, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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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