TGA forces pharma companies to stockpile vital meds to avert shortages
Almost 100 pharmaceutical companies must now keep at least four months’ supply of common drug brands in the country under a Federal Government plan to combat…
Tag: Medicines management
Mandatory training scrapped for GPs prescribing abortion drugs
The rule that GPs must retake a three-hour training course every three years to prescribe abortion drugs is being scrapped, along with mandatory registration for…
Only 1 in 30 Aboriginal patients with alcohol dependency prescribed meds: study
Just one in 30 Indigenous patients with likely alcohol dependency are prescribed medication for relapse prevention, according to Australian-first research. The year-long study involving some…
1 in 4 patients die within a year of first HF hospitalisation: study
Globally, one in four patients die within 12 months of their first heart failure-related hospitalisation, according to a study in JACC: Heart Failure. Dr Biykem…
Priority patients for opioid deprescribing identified in first guidelines for GPs
Patients with COPD or sleep apnoea whose quality of life is not improving with opioid analgesia are among the priority groups for deprescribing, according to…
Having multiple chronic conditions does not alter medication efficacy: study
Treatments for single conditions are just as effective in patients with multiple chronic diseases regardless of the total number or type of comorbidities, according to…
Watch for ‘rare but serious’ side effect from oral anticoagulants: TGA
The medicines watchdog has slapped safety warnings on all oral anticoagulants following post-marketing reports of anticoagulant-related nephropathy presenting as acute kidney injury. On Thursday, the…
Dual long-acting bronchodilators ‘preferable’ to ICS–LABA therapy in COPD
Combination inhalers with two long-acting bronchodilators should be the preferred treatment option for patients with COPD, suggest results from a large US study. Researchers say…
NSW pharmacists start prescribing in ‘feasibility’ study as full trial pushed back
The NSW Government has officially launched its pharmacist prescribing trial with a pilot of 100 pharmacies diagnosing and treating UTIs. Lead researcher Dr Sarah Dineen-Griffin…
Why the RACGP isn’t walking out of the next pharmacy prescribing trial
The RACGP has backed a NSW trial of pharmacists diagnosing and treating UTIs to be safer and more scientifically robust than its Queensland counterpart. The…
