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Nov 21, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Nial Wheate |Jasmine Lee |Tina Hinton
Australia's drug regulator has issued a over the medicine Phenergan and related products containing the antihistamine drug promethazine. The Therapeutic Goods Administration said the over-the-counter products should not be given to children under six due to concerns of serious side effects including hyperactivity, aggression and hallucination. Breathing can also become slow or shallow, which can be fatal.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Nial Wheate |Jasmine Lee |Tina Hinton
Australia’s drug regulator has issued a over the medicine Phenergan and related products containing the antihistamine drug promethazine. The Therapeutic Goods Administration said the over-the-counter products should not be given to children under six due to concerns of serious side effects including hyperactivity, aggression and hallucination. Breathing can also become slow or shallow, which can be fatal.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
agedcareinsite.com.au | Nial Wheate |Tina Hinton
Nial Wheate, Macquarie University and Tina Hinton, University of SydneyAustralia currently finds itself in the unusual position of being both in an opioid epidemic and experiencing a shortage of these critical medicines. The Therapeutic Goods Administration has placed eight oral morphine products on its shortage list. It doesn’t expect supply for these products to be resolved until around October or November this year.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Nial Wheate |Tina Hinton
Australia currently finds itself in the unusual position of being both in an opioid epidemic and experiencing a shortage of these critical medicines. The Therapeutic Goods Administration has placed eight oral morphine products on its shortage list. It doesn't expect supply for these products to be resolved until around October or November this year.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Nial Wheate |Tina Hinton
Australia currently finds itself in the unusual position of being both in an opioid epidemic and experiencing a shortage of these critical medicines. The Therapeutic Goods Administration has placed eight oral morphine products on its shortage list. It doesn’t expect supply for these products to be resolved until around October or November this year. This is a problem for the near 100,000 people receiving palliative care who may rely on opioids, such as morphine, to manage their daily chronic pain.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
canberratimes.com.au | Nial Wheate |Jasmine Lee |Kellie Charles |Tina Hinton
Anyone who has drunk alcohol will be familiar with how easily it can lower your social inhibitions and let you do things you wouldn't normally do. or signup to continue readingSee subscription optionsBut you may not be aware that mixing certain medicines with alcohol can increase the effects and put you at risk.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Nial Wheate |Jasmine Lee |Kellie Charles |Tina Hinton
Anyone who has drunk alcohol will be familiar with how easily it can lower your social inhibitions and let you do things you wouldn't normally do. But you may not be aware that mixing certain medicines with alcohol can increase the effects and put you at risk. When you mix alcohol with medicines, whether prescription or over-the-counter, the medicines can increase the effects of the alcohol or the alcohol can increase the side-effects of the drug.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
canadianinquirer.net | Nial Wheate |Jasmine Lee |Kellie Charles |Tina Hinton
Anyone who has drunk alcohol will be familiar with how easily it can lower your social inhibitions and let you do things you wouldn’t normally do. But you may not be aware that mixing certain medicines with alcohol can increase the effects and put you at risk. When you mix alcohol with medicines, whether prescription or over-the-counter, the medicines can increase the effects of the alcohol or the alcohol can increase the side-effects of the drug.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Nial Wheate |Jasmine Lee |Kellie Charles |Tina Hinton
Nial Wheate in the past has received funding from the ACT Cancer Council, Tenovus Scotland, Medical Research Scotland, Scottish Crucible, and the Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, a member of the Australasian Pharmaceutical Science Association, and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
theconversation.com | Nial Wheate |Tina Hinton
The daily use of low dose aspirin has been a mainstay of preventing strokes for decades. While there has always been a risk of bleeding associated with aspirin use, the benefits were thought to outweigh the risk. Now new research led by Monash University has shown daily, low-dose aspirin doesn’t prevent strokes in relatively healthy people aged over 70. And it increases their risk of bleeding on the brain after falls or other injuries.
