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- Weighing the evidence for CBD in pain and anxiety careCommunity pharmacists across Australia are fielding more questions about cannabidiol than ever before. Walk into any dispensary in Melbourne or Brisbane and…
- Pharmacists as health coaches: guiding patients toward real outcomesAustralia's community pharmacies sit at a crossroads of clinical care and everyday conversation. Across suburban chemists in Brisbane, regional towns in…
- Designing medication therapy around people living with chronic painChronic pain reshapes the daily rhythm of roughly one in five Australians, placing around 3.6 million adults somewhere between an occasional ache and a life…
- Antidepressant Use in Adolescents: A Pharmacist's Guide to Benefits and RisksAdolescent depression has become one of the most pressing mental health concerns across Australia, with recent surveys indicating that roughly one in seven…
- Handling Medication Errors in Pharmacy: A Step-by-Step Action PlanEven the most careful pharmacist will eventually face a dispensing error, a clinical misjudgement, or a miscommunication that puts a patient at risk. Community…
- Social Determinants of Health in the Community Pharmacy SettingPharmacists working in community settings witness the social determinants of health more frequently than almost any other clinician. Each script filled in…
- The Pharmacist’s Guide To Interpreting Lab ValuesLaboratory results are central to safe medication management, yet a number rarely tells the whole clinical story. A creatinine result can alter an antibiotic…
- Building pharmacy-led naloxone programs in AustraliaEvery week, Australian pharmacists see the sharp edge of the opioid crisis up close. Whether the setting is a busy Brisbane CBD dispensary, a regional outlet…
- Counselling patients on inhalers and respiratory medicinesPharmacists sit at the frontline of respiratory care across Australia, where roughly one in nine people lives with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary…
- How COVID-19 Reshaped Australian Community PharmacyThe COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Australia in early 2020 and immediately tested every layer of the health system. Among the most visibly stretched were…