Can I crush that tablet?

The latest edition of Australia’s most authoritative text addressing modification of oral dose forms is now available for purchase from the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia. For more information about the 3rd Edition of Don’t Rush to Crush,...

Hip fractures amongst older people in Australia

New data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. One doesn’t need to be a biostatistician to see a trend here. Medications that cause osteopaenia/osteoporosis, as well as orthostasis and other factors that create a falls diathesis in the elderly...

eGFR < 30 ml/min = trouble for people treated with metformin

Millions of people with diabetes receive metformin treatment every day, this being consistent with widely implemented treatment guidelines. Clinicians are apprehensive about the possibility of lactic acidosis amongst metformin-treated patients with renal impairment....