Supporting patients with chemotherapy-induced adverse effects
With the growing number of oral chemotherapy agents becoming available, more patients are being managed in the community setting.
As such, community pharmacists have an increasingly significant role to play to ensure patients are able to
correctly administer their medications to enhance efficacy and minimise adverse effects.
Medications in pregnancy and breastfeeding
As the medicine experts, pharmacists are often asked about the suitability of medications in pregnancy and breastfeeding from patients, carers and other healthcare providers. This is a crucial professional service pharmacists provide to the community, however often times the information available may not be clear or hard to find. With many women requiring pharmacological therapy at some stage during pregnancy and breastfeeding, pharmacists need to provide accurate evidence-based advice to support these patients.
Atrial fibrillation – an update
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