‘The most hellish period of my life’: A doctor’s battle coming off antidepressants
When Dr Mark Horowitz first decided it was time to stop taking antidepressants, he faced conflicting advice about what to expect. ‘Mild and brief’ was…
When Dr Mark Horowitz first decided it was time to stop taking antidepressants, he faced conflicting advice about what to expect. ‘Mild and brief’ was…
A medicinal cannabis clinic has launched a ‘rapid access’ program that promises to provide cannabis prescriptions to patients within 60 minutes. Dr Laurence Kemp, the…
Pharmacists in NSW and Victoria have supplied the contraceptive pill to more than 1500 women as part of state-based pharmacy prescribing trials. More than 800…
NSW Minister for Health Ryan Park has confirmed that the state’s pharmacy trial will be expanded to allow pharmacists to prescribe treatments for four skin conditions including…
GPs who write 60-day scripts are giving the Federal Government reasons to cut chronic disease care plan rebates, a letter from pharmacists is warning. The…
GPs can expect letters imploring them not to write 60-day scripts to protect patients’ “financial best interest” and to preserve access to Webster packs and…
A group of pharmacists says a “dossier” of 10,000 patient scripts proves that 60-day dispensing is a “rort” and failing to free up GP appointments. …
The SA Government should let pharmacists prescribe antibiotics for UTIs “as soon as possible” without a trial or pilot program, a parliamentary committee has declared.…
Almost 70 doctors, half of them GPs, have agreed to supervise pharmacists while they train to prescribe S4 drugs and manage chronic conditions under Queensland’s…
Patients with types 1 diabetes will continue to have subsidised access to fast-acting insulin, with the approval of a new product to replace Fiasp and…
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