Hospitals and Healthcare

Monique Ryan and other doctors say doubling the number of medicines a person can collect with each prescription would save patients and the government millions, but pharmacists vowed to oppose the reform.

Another use for your smartphone, this time to present to the pharmacists rather than a paper prescription.

Bailee Riddick is working 10 hour days during lockdown, giving drive-though jabs and filling our prescriptions.

Just how expensive do prescription drugs need to be to fund innovative research?

Civica Rx, a not-for-profit generic drug company, is a response to shortages and price spikes. The goal is to force change in the marketplace overall.

A hospital in Singapore is now using robotics to bring down pharmacy waiting times while easing loads on pharmacists by automating 80% of medication dispensing.

A coroner has criticised a GP's decision to prescribe a chemotherapy drug for a Croydon retiree even through he was warned it could be fatal.

A new productivity report has suggested automated dispensing machines could replace pharmacists.

Nearly a year after coronavirus wreaked havoc on global healthcare supply chains, Australia is still struggling to overcome critical medicine shortages, leaving some to take drastic stop-gap measures like reducing dosages.

The new Community Pharmacy Agreement will make it easier for Australia's pharmacists to spend time providing expert health advice to customers rather than focusing on retail revenues.

The pharmaceutical industry once sued to keep AIDS drugs from dying Africans. Now companies boast of their efforts to get medicines to the developing world.

Regional Australians are feeling 'pill shamed' and are avoiding treatment due to the stigma around mental health medication and a lack of confidentiality in small-town pharmacies.

Are people relying too much on the traditional doctor/patient interaction?

In one case a woman in a care home was found to have taken antibiotics for more than a decade, after she caught a chest infection while owning a parrot.

Australia's pharmacy industry, already battling lower margins, is bracing for the digital disruption that has upended scores of industries before it.