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Wesfarmers moves into menopause
Friday | Sep 26 2025PRICELINE Pharmacy has launched Anything Menopause, an initiative designed to provide women with accessible, informed advice and care around menopause in stores throughout the country.
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“Sustained investment needed”
Friday | Sep 26 2025ON WORLD Pharmacists Day yesterday, Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) celebrated the evolving role of pharmacists to ensure safe, cost-effective and accessible care, while calling for sustained investment in the hospital pharmacy workforce.
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‘Think health, think pharmacist’ on WPD2025
Thursday | Sep 25 2025PEAK bodies are celebrating the contribution of pharmacists across Australia's healthcare system and are calling on the government and public to 'Think health, think pharmacist' on World Pharmacists Day today.
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Cutting unnecessary meds
Thursday | Sep 25 2025RESEARCHERS from the University of Western Australia have published clinical practice guidelines for deprescribing in older people, which aim to reduce unnecessary medicines and the risks that come with them.
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Trust in pharmacists high, but cost barriers remain
Wednesday | Sep 24 2025NEW research from Patients Australia and Healthengine released yesterday reported that cost-of-living pressures are impacting on healthcare decisions - including medication purchases - for three in four (75%) Australians, with young adults and women most affected.
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Early detection vital in AF
Wednesday | Sep 24 2025THIS week marks Hearts4heart's Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Week (22-28 Sep), and with half a million Australians affected by the condition, leading heart physicians have urged pharmacists and other health professionals to get involved in its early detection.
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“Paracetamol safe in pregnancy”
Tuesday | Sep 23 2025PHARMACY peak bodies have joined the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and other medical experts in confirming that paracetamol is safe to take in pregnancy, off the back of US President Trump's claims this week.
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New guide to support kids with chronic pain
Tuesday | Sep 23 2025KIDS in Pain, an initiative of Chronic Pain Australia, has released a helpful new guide for community pharmacists to support children with chronic pain, estimated to affect one in five aged six to 18 years.
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Older Aussies collect 31 PBS scripts a year
Tuesday | Sep 23 2025THIS article was written by: Hui Wen Quek, PhD candidate, Discipline of Pharmacy, University of Western Australia (UWA); Amy T Page, Associate Professor, School of Health and Clinical Sciences, Pharmacy, UWA; Christopher Etherton-Beer, Professor in Geriatric Medicine, UWA; and Kenneth Lee, Senior Lecturer, Pharmacy, School of Health and Clinical Sciences, UWA.
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APC supports endorsement
Monday | Sep 22 2025THE Australian Pharmacy Council (APC) has welcomed the Pharmacy Board's announcement to establish an endorsement for scheduled medicines that will standardise the qualifications required by pharmacists who prescribe (PD 18 Sep).
