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.