Australian Prescriber

Australian Prescriber is an independent peer-reviewed journal providing critical commentary on drugs and therapeutics for health professionals.

  • Volume 43 Issue 1

  • February 2020

National Medicines Policy 2.0: a vision for the future

National Medicines Policy 2.0: a vision for the future
Article
Andrew J McLachlan, Parisa Aslani
  • 3 February 2020
  • Podcast - National Medicines Policy 2.0: a vision for the future

Australia’s National Medicines Policy is in serious need for an update. What should a review of the policy include?
Article

Herpes zoster vaccination in Australia: what’s available and who benefits?

Herpes zoster vaccination in Australia: what’s available and who benefits?
Article

Herpes zoster vaccination in Australia: what’s available and who benefits?

Sanjay Jayasinghe, Sarah Sheridan, Kristine Macartney
  • 3 February 2020

Herpes zoster vaccine is freely available to at-risk Australians, but many are not vaccinated.
Article

Managing the overlap of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Managing the overlap of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Article

Managing the overlap of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Anne Knight
  • 3 February 2020

People with coexisting COPD and asthma are often excluded from clinical trials, so which treatments work for these patients?
Article

Management of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Management of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
Article

Management of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Emma Gard, Shane Nanayakkara, David Kaye, Harry Gibbs
  • 3 February 2020

There are currently no highly effective treatments for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, so how should it be managed?
Article

Drug interaction resources: mind the gaps

Drugs
Article

Drug interaction resources: mind the gaps

Louise Grannell
  • 3 February 2020
Book review

Doctor’s Bag Companion

BOOK
Book review

Doctor’s Bag Companion

John Holmes
  • 3 February 2020
Letters to the Editor

Bruce Shepherd Medal for independent medicine

Bruce Shepherd Medal for independent medicine
Letters to the Editor

Bruce Shepherd Medal for independent medicine

Aniello Iannuzzi
  • 3 February 2020
Correction

Blood pressure: at what level is treatment worthwhile? [Correction]

Blood-pressure-Getty Images-1065991212
Correction

Blood pressure: at what level is treatment worthwhile? [Correction]

  • 3 February 2020

New drugs

Patiromer sorbitex calcium for hyperkalaemia

  • 3 February 2020

Tisagenlecleucel for B-cell cancers

  • 3 February 2020

Early release

New drug

Risankizumab for psoriasis

  • 20 February 2020

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