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Rotorua’s first Chemist Warehouse store is coming to town, but a local pharmacist is concerned about what the store opening could mean if the Government...

Shortages of Covid-19 rapid antigen tests (RATs) in Tasmania prompts call for supply chain plan to manage future waves

The New Year has started off with the issues of medicines access and affordability dominating the headlines

Guild calls for indexed increases to PBS co-payments to be dropped to ease cost of living pressures 

Continued dispensing measures should be activated permanently to ensure patients can access prescribed medicine in emergencies, a Guild leader says

The listing of Chemist Warehouse on the ASX is the final nail in the coffin for laws designed to keep pharmacies in the hands of small business owners.

The New Year is here, which means a raft of peculiar changes, from a 24-hour ‘cat containment’ policy and ‘tourist taxes’ to digital driver licences. Here are the big changes coming.

A raft of state and federal changes will affect Australians this year, including measures designed to make it easier for pensioners to work more.

Tasmanians will have to wait a few extra weeks for free vaccines from approved pharmacists. Find out how the expanded federal program will help protect from vaccine-preventable diseases.

More than 420 medicines are in short supply, including hormone replacement therapies. Medical experts warn the shortages are at best frustrating and at worst dangerous.