10 Jul 2023
Nitrosamine risk assessment in Category 1 prescription medicine registration applications
Sponsors need to be aware of the global issue relating to nitrosamine impurities in medicines.
10 Jul 2023
Doctors’ orders for MPs: stick to 60-day scripts
Doctors’ orders for MPs: stick to 60-day scripts
10 Jul 2023
Student placements key to rural healthcare: Study
The paper adds to a growing body of research that shows regional placement opportunities are a vital part of tackling workforce maldistribution.
10 Jul 2023
Tasmania ditches the fax and welcomes digital reform
Australia’s smallest state has implemented an electronic referral system one GP says should ‘definitely be rolled out nationally’.
10 Jul 2023
New advice for ‘unprecedented’ antibiotics shortage
With ongoing supply issues, Therapeutic Guidelines has released a guide for prescribers on alternatives in the absence of first-line therapies.
07 Jul 2023
$43 million for research into the better use of genomics in diagnoses and the improved mental health and wellbeing of vulnerable people
Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) grant opportunities to the value of $43 million are now available.
07 Jul 2023
COVID-19 update 7 July 2023
COVID Cases in SA There have been 993 new cases of COVID-19 reported in South Australia in the past week.
07 Jul 2023
Regulator boosts resources to meet jump in sexual misconduct complaints
Efforts to uncover and act on sexual misconduct in the healthcare system have seen a sustained jump in reports to authorities as well as the number of practitioners facing regulatory action to protect the public
07 Jul 2023
Nurse who spat at her elderly patient disqualified from applying for registration for two years
A tribunal has cancelled a nurse’s registration and disqualified her from applying for two years after she spat at a vulnerable patient and used vulgar language.
07 Jul 2023
Warning against potentially deadly synthetic opioid
South Australians are being warned about the presence of a potentially deadly synthetic opioid that led to two people being treated at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) this week.