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

  • Volume 42 Issue 2
  • April 2019

Influenza: overview on prevention and therapy

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Article
Christopher Robson, Sai Rupa Baskar, Robert Booy, Patricia E Ferguson, Nicole Gilroy, Jen Kok, Indy Sandaradura, Dominic Dwyer
  • 1 April 2019
  • 2 min read

Quadrivalent vaccines, trivalent vaccines and antiviral drugs. What are the tools for fighting influenza?
Editorial

My Health Record: a community pharmacy perspective

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Editorial

My Health Record: a community pharmacy perspective

Shane Jackson, Gregory Peterson
  • 1 April 2019
  • 4 min read

The security of electronic health records has been controversial, but what about the potential benefits?
Article

Drug-induced movement disorders

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Article

Drug-induced movement disorders

Stephen R Duma, Victor SC Fung
  • 1 April 2019

Tremors, irregular movements and stiffness may be a sign of adverse drug reactions and can be life threatening. Find out how they can be recognised, distinguished and treated.
Editorial

Real-time prescription monitoring: lessons from Tasmania

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Editorial

Real-time prescription monitoring: lessons from Tasmania

Peter Boyles
  • 1 April 2019

Does real-time prescription monitoring reduce deaths from opioid poisoning? Find out the lessons learnt in Tasmania.
Letters to the Editor

Dulaglutide efficacy

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Letters to the Editor

Dulaglutide efficacy

Alessandra Sandrini
  • 1 April 2019
Correction

The hot patient: acute drug-induced hyperthermia [Correction]

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Correction

The hot patient: acute drug-induced hyperthermia [Correction]

  • 18 February 2019
  • 3 min read
New drugs

Bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide for HIV infection

  • 28 February 2019
  • 3 min read

Ertugliflozin for type 2 diabetes

  • 28 February 2019
  • 3 min read

Midostaurin for acute myeloid leukaemia, mastocytosis and mast cell leukaemia

  • 28 February 2019
  • 3 min read

Nusinersen for spinal muscular atrophy

  • 28 February 2019
  • 3 min read

Pralatrexate for lymphoma

  • 28 February 2019
  • 3 min read

Safinamide for Parkinson’s disease

  • 28 February 2019
  • 3 min read
Early release
New drug
Telotristat ethyl for carcinoid syndrome diarrhoea
  • 24 April 2019
New drug
Tafenoquine succinate for malaria prevention
  • 24 April 2019
New drug
Sofosbuvir/velpatasvir/voxilaprevir for hepatitis C
  • 24 April 2019
New drug
Letermovir for cytomegalovirus prophylaxis
  • 24 April 2019
New drug
Guselkumab for plaque psoriasis
  • 24 April 2019
New drug
Durvalumab for urothelial carcinoma, non‑small cell lung cancer
  • 24 April 2019
New drug
Cerliponase alfa for neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type 2 disease
  • 24 April 2019
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