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Emoji Power and Pharmacist Communications
Recently I noted a comment published in a pharmacy online blog that criticised the way pharmacist written communications were delivered to aboriginal communities and referred specifically to the lack of images to relay concepts or specialised components of information. Not having a lot of experience in this area I reflected about what I did know…
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Sleep disorder expert appointed new ResMed Chair
Sleep disorder expert Professor Peter Cistullihas been appointed the ResMed Chair in Sleep Medicine at the University of Sydney. Professor Cistulli will lead the University’s research, clinical, and educational activities in advancing the field of sleep-disordered breathing and its impact on chronic disease management. The new Chair is funded by ResMed and will work across…
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Why Large Pharmacies Must Develop
Traditionally, when pharmacists reach a mature point in their business and practice development, they have looked to increase their success by adding a new pharmacy to their collection. And sometimes more than two pharmacies, expanding to the legal limit of five or six (or even more using creative investment practices). While the gross profit capacity…
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The Workforce Summit, Senior Pharmacists, Aged Care & Designing a More Inclusive Succession System
The emergence of a “think tank” for Australian pharmacy ought to be a significant event, but you would never think so because it is so “low key”, It was recently responsible for the pharmacy profession’s first ever Australian Pharmacist Workforce Summit, ‘uniting our profession for a sustainable future’ – an event that was held on…
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Novel mHealth app detects depression
Passive app requires ‘no effort on the part of the user’ Feeling down? Your smartphone will most likely know before you or your doctors do, after a recent study showed promise for an mHealth app that detects depression and monitors at-risk populations. Researchers at Northwestern University’s department of preventive medicine have developed a novel mobile…
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The Start-Point for Community Pharmacy Clinical Services – The Walgreen Model
There is no doubt that when an individual undertakes fitness training they measurably do better if they have a fitness coach supervising the process. And it works even better if there is some form of reward attached when goals are reached. Jenny Craig weight loss programs would not have the success they have had without…
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Pharmacy Needs Education & Training – Who will fill this need?
I recently read an article on leadership in the Harvard Business Review where a distinction was made between training and education and a view that educational establishments collectively over-invest in education and under-invest in training. Typically, higher education prizes knowledge over skills. This produces knowledgeable leaders and managers while training and skills go to those…
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Virotherapy: skin cancer successfully treated with herpes-based drug
‘Virotherapy’ uses modified herpes virus to attack melanoma cells and has potential to overcome cancer even when disease has spread throughout the body A 3D model of virus particles. The ability of viruses to specifically infect and kill human cells makes them promising cancer treatments. A 3D model of virus particles. The ability of viruses…
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PBS Co-Pays…Come out Swinging!
When something does not make sense and defies commonsense and logic- then it is political. The decision to enable pharmacists to discount the PBS co-pay by up to $1.00 is one such decision. The logic is that it will create more competition, but the reality is that it will cause erosion to the profit base…
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Implantable Device Delivers Medicine One Molecule at a Time
It could be used someday to treat fractured spines, pinched nerves, and epilepsy. It’s smaller than your index finger, and it might be the future of implantable devices to treat a fractured spine, pinched nerve, or neurological disorder like epilepsy. As they report in the journal Science today, a team of engineers and medical researchers in Sweden has…