Following the successful Queensland trial of pharmacist-delivered flu vaccinations, the state government, which is jointly running the trial with the Pharmacy Guild of Australia and the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA), announced on July 9, 2014, it will extend the pilot trial to cover other vaccinations, including measles and whooping cough in adults. The jointly…

The use of marijuana as medicine is a tough subject to broach. With proponents both for and against the use of cannabis as a medicine, the community is firmly divided. People are so passionate about this topic. But why? It makes complete sense for family and friends of the terminally ill to utilise marijuana in…

Former Australian Test Cricketer, VFL/AFL footballer, author and commentator, Max Walker, AM, joined public health experts at the ‘Equity in disease prevention: vaccines for the elderly workshop,’ held in Melbourne today (Friday, June 20), to tackle the monumental health challenges facing our greying nation. Innovative, effective and long-term approaches to elderly immunisation were proposed to…

“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times” – Mark Twain. Eighteen months after the Australian Labor Party introduced its plain packaging laws in an attempt to stop Australians from smoking, new data published in The Australian newspaper on Friday (June 6, 2014) shows…

With the launch of Bowel Cancer Awareness Month 2014, Bowel Cancer Australia is calling on the government to urgently address concerning inequities in support and access to life-extending treatments for Australia’s second deadliest cancer. The call has been prompted by the My Cancer. My Voice survey, which revealed more than four out of five bowel…