Level 2, Shop 126 (next to Medical Centre), St Ives Shopping Village, 166 Mona Vale Road, St Ives, NSW, 2075
O'Loughlin's Medical Pharmacy
Level 2, Shop 126 (next to Medical Centre), St Ives Shopping Village, 166 Mona Vale Road, St Ives, NSW, 2075
Arthritis is a major cause of disability and chronic pain in Australia, and it is estimated about 4 million Australians are affected by it. Apart from the pain and suffering, arthritis has a huge economic impac...
Arthritis
Introducing Active Script List (ASL) - The smarter way to manage your prescriptions!The Active Script List (ASL) securely stores all your electronic prescriptions in one place. No more juggling multiple tokens ...
Active Script List (ASL)
Summer Holidays - Peak Time For AccidentsChristmas and New Year should be a time of celebration – and for most of us it is a happy holiday season. Unfortunately the fun and games can quickly turn to disa...
General Health - Summer Accide...
We All Should Work With HeartOn its website, the World Heart Foundation identifies some simple steps to maintain a healthy heart – attention to issues such as a healthy food intake, regular exercise, say...
Blood Pressure
Is your nose making your asthma worse?Have you had hayfever (allergic rhinitis), sinus problems (sinusitis) or been advised by your doctor that your irritated nose and eyes are caused by allergy?Have you experi...
Asthma and Hayfever
Be Prepared For AsthmaThe first week in September each year is traditionally designated as National Asthma Awareness Week - to draw our attention to a condition which directly affects more than two million Aust...
Asthma
Taking Care Of Your Bones As You Age.Whether you have osteoporosis or just want to build strong bones for the future, there are several things you can do to maintain your bones.Calcium is important for maintain...
Bone Health
How Dense Are You?World Osteoporosis Day (20 October) has one again highlighted the need for us all to be building healthy bones.Osteoporosis literally means porous bones. It’s a disease that occurs when...
Bone Density and Osteoporosis
Having Regular Blood Pressure Checkups?Blood pressure is the measurement of the force your blood puts on blood vessel walls as it travels through the body. Blood pressure varies throughout the day to meet your ...
Blood Pressure Check-Up Due?
Diabetes not only affects the people diagnosed with diabetes, it also impacts their family members as well. Many people with diabetes require additional support to manage their diabetes and if you are caring fo...
Caring For Someone with Diabet...
Every day in Australia, about 43 women are diagnosed as suffering from breast cancer with the annual number of women affected being about 15,600. Breast cancer can also affect men with about 145 men being diagn...
Breast Cancer
Australians are being reminded of the important role pharmacists play in the early detection of bowel cancer as part of Red Apple Day (17 June).Red Apple Day is hosted every third Wednesday in June and encourag...
Bowel Cancer - Red Apple Day
It is never too early to begin checking children’s eyes, especially if there is a family history of eye disease which puts them at greater risk of developing a similar problem.And the first eight years o...
Children's Eye Health
Sometimes it can be a challenge to make sure your parents are getting the best care. Older parents may need to take a lot of medicines every day for a chronic condition or need help in addressing their disease ...
Caring For Your Parents
Caring for a baby or young child is never straightforward, especially when it comes to their health.Your local community pharmacy is the perfect place to get advice on dealing with a range of health-related iss...
Caring For Your Children
Playing It Safe With Complementary MedicinesSome 15 years ago, a Chinese herb, artemisinin, was identified as a possible treatment for malaria. Previously quinine, known as the bitter principle in tonic water, ...
Complementary Medicines
The summer months are the peak period for dry and burnt lips, conditions which in turn provide the ideal conditions for cold sores to break out.The HSV-1, or herpes simplex, is the virus responsible for cold so...
Cold Sores
The rising awareness of the incidence of coeliac disease in the community has resulted from the growing number of people being diagnosed with the disease.Despite this, it remains one of Australia’s most ...
Coeliac Disease
Many people will catch a cold at some stage during the year and rather than try to treat it yourself, you are advised to seek the advice of your community pharmacist who can recommend the best treatment to help...
Coughs and Colds
Free COVID-19 vaccinations are available to everyone aged 12 years and over. You need two doses to be considered fully vaccinated against COVID-19.Primary SchedulePfizer Vaccine available for all patients aged ...
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Constipation is a very common bowel problem and is when you do not pass stools as often as normal or the stools are hard and dry.Other signs of constipation include pain and cramps in the stomach area or the fe...
Constipation
Diabetes - Not Such A Sweet DiseaseDiabetes is a condition where the body can’t use glucose properly – usually because of a lack of insulin or so-called insulin resistance when the body fails to r...
Diabetes and Obesity
Everyone has days when they’re a bit down but depression is a far more serious issue which will affect one in five women and one in eight men at some stage of their lives.Depression is a serious illness ...
Depression
The risk of developing deep vein thrombosis as a result of long-haul flights has gained more attention in recent times following increased media coverage and community concern over the issue.DVT is a common med...
Deep Vein Thrombosis
Diarrhoea is a fairly common problem that usually lasts only a day or two but – when it does last longer – can be a sign of other problems.Diarrhoea is described as acute (starts suddenly and can ...
Diarrhoea
Taking The Pressure Off DiabetesWorldwide, the number of adults with diabetes has more than doubled over the past 30 years. According to a study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in conjunction wi...
Diabetes Awareness
Worldwide, the number of adults with diabetes has more than doubled over the past 30 years. According to a study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in conjunction with the World Health Organisation...
Diabetes and Sugar
Drug driving is a term that is becoming increasingly well-known and is used in reference to drivers who are caught having used illicit substances. These illegal drugs can impair a driver’s reactions and ...
Driving While Taking Medicines
When it comes to medication, it’s important to remember that your child is not a ‘little adult’. They can be more sensitive and respond differently to medication than an adult...
Down the hatch - What you need...
GORD! That really burns.In 2005, Australians Barry Marshall and Robin Wren were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. It was recognition that some 20 years earlier they had demonstrated that it wa...
Digestive Health
Whether or not you wear a tie, if your sight is hazy or blurred and your eyes often difficult to focus, then you should definitely focus your attention on the messages to come from the recent World Glaucoma Day...
Eye Health - Glaucoma
Eczema (or atopic dermatitis as it is formally known) is more common than many people realise and it is estimated that one in three Australians will suffer from it to some degree during their lives.The conditio...
Eczema
Many of us will experience ear problems at some time in our lives and these can affect the outer, middle or inner ear.Common conditions of the ear include infection, inflammation and wax build up and while some...
Ear Problems
Fish Oils & Omega-3 Fatty AcidsFish oil is a natural product derived from the tissues of oily fish such as sardines and salmon. It contains high proportions of two nutritionally important omega-3 fatty acid...
Fish Oil
Eye Health Tips For the Over 60s.Because our eyesight changes as we get older, many of us will need to wear glasses or contact lenses as we age, here are some tips to help keep your vision clear.Its important t...
Eye Health Tips
Presently there is no cure for AMD; and treatments to delay or stop its progression have met with limited success; so there is increasing interest in identifying risk factors which, when modified, may reduce th...
Eye Health - Macular
Are Australians Obese?It has been estimated that, sometime within the past few weeks, the world’s population has ticked over the seven billion mark. It seems we’re populating the world at an ever ...
Weight Control
Keeping Fit - Feet FirstEvery motor vehicle, even those with the most electronically sophisticated 21st century engines, will have needed regular, routine servicing to have travelled safely and smoothly for aro...
Foot Health
Flu Vaccine Who Needs It?Each year in Australia, influenza causes an estimated 3,000 deaths in older people. There are also the economic costs to the community of more than one and a half million lost work days...
Flu Vaccine Who Needs It?
Gout is a form of arthritis characterised by a painful inflammation of a joint or joints in the body and it is caused by a build-up of uric acid crystals in these joints.Gout is generally more common in men tha...
Gout
Germ Warfare for WinterHe's sympathetically holding a snuffle-stricken toddler, bouncing gently to cheer up the poor little germ-bag. Then BLAM, a full-throated sneeze hits him straight in the face. (Why do bad...
Germs In Winter
ANZAC Day brings with it a mix of emotions – a sense of achievement, a sense of pride, but also a sense of sadness. Nevertheless, for everyone it’s a time for reflection – a time to reflect...
General Health - ANZAC Day
Sniffling Our Way Through Spring and SummerTraditionally, hay fever (known medically as allergic rhinitis) is said to begin in Australia about this time – spring coming on to summer. But the reality is h...
Hayfever Management
Allergic rhinitis – more commonly known as hayfever – is an allergy that affects the nose.While the majority of people associate hay fever with spring, when airborne pollens from grasses are preva...
Hayfever
Hanging On Over Christmas and New YearsIt seems, sadly, for many people an essential part of being able to enjoy the festive season is overeating and particularly over drinking.In fact, despite the known conseq...
Hangover Cures
Getting The Heads Up On Lice TreatmentIt’s about this time school-age children will be meeting old friends and making some new friends too. Almost certainly in the mix of new acquaintances – the u...
Head Lice Treatment
Back-to-school time also means children are returning to the environment where head lice proliferate and parents are often at their wit’s end trying to find ways to get rid of them.And the problem only s...
Head Lice
Hay Fever - Not Really A Condition To Be Sneezed AtIt’s pretty well accepted that, in Australia, August is the windy month. And that means all those airborne pollutants and newly sprung pollens are blown...
Hayfever Treatments
Osteoporosis is a common disease in Australia with some 1.2 million people estimated to have the disease and further 6.3 million affected with low bone density. Osteoporosis occurs when bones lose minerals, suc...
Healthy Bones
While there are plenty of jokes about 'man-flu', 'mum-flu' is a very real problem. In a lot of households, the mum is the primary carer not only for her partner and her children, but often for elderly parents. ...
Health Scheduling Secrets of B...
Be Happy Without HeadachesThe recent National Headache and Migraine Awareness Week was a reminder (if we really needed one) that headache is one of the most common symptoms experienced by humans. It's quite unu...
Headaches
Hyertension and the risk to your heartCoronary artery disease - the disease that causes angina and heart attacks - is still one of the main causes of death and disability in Australia. While there are some risk...
Heart Health - Hypertension
How Healthy Is Your Hearing?National Hearing Week is an annual event held in the last week of August. It provides an opportunity to raise community awareness of hearing impairment and ways to protect to your he...
Hearing - Tinnitus
The loss of hearing is an impairment which often attracts little understanding or sympathy and many of us tend to become inpatient or exacerbated at having to repeat ourselves or speak loudly to people sufferin...
Hearing
Community pharmacists around Australia who have been appropriately trained are now able to provide vaccinations to protect you from getting the flu.The availability of flu shots at your pharmacy mean they are e...
Influenza and Vaccination
'Last year I didn't get the flu vaccine,' says Candice, a self-employed mum of two boys,' I normally do, because I also care for my elderly parents and my youngest son has mild asthma'.'I know how important her...
I can't adult today! When mum ...
It is unpleasant, and often painful, and yet it is a condition that affects 70 per cent of all Australians at some stage during their life. It is gastroesophageal reflux or indigestion – or heartburn as ...
Heartburn
Our kidneys are our bodies’ very complex and efficient waste disposal system. They filter all liquids and sort waste from nutrients. Although we have two kidneys, we need at least one functioning kidney ...
Kidneys
Many medicines we take have a label advising that they must be stored below a certain temperature.This is because some medicines lose their effectiveness when stored above this minimum temperature and some may ...
Keeping Medicines Safe
Flu Vaccine - Who Needs It?Each year in Australia, influenza causes an estimated 3,000 deaths in older people. There are also the economic costs to the community of over one and a half million lost work days, 3...
Influenza Vaccine
Community pharmacies are ideally placed to assist in providing support and advice for pregnant women.The area of maternal services available through community pharmacy is broad, with pharmacies adapting to loca...
Maternal Services
If your child has been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD,) they may have been prescribed medicine as part of their treatment plan. There are a number of ways your community pharmacis...
Managing your child's ADHD Med...
Pain is a complex condition influenced by the mind, body and environment.It is an individual experience that is personal and can only be completely understood by the person experiencing the pain.A perso...
Managing Pain
Life expectancy is increasing both at birth and over the course of a person’s life, meaning that the proportion of older people is increasing.This is highlighted by the fact that according to the Council...
Medicines and the Ageing
An organised and functional medicine cabinet should be a priority item in all homes.But while many of us have medicine cabinets, we often do not maintain them.To avoid your medicine cabinet and unused medicines...
Medicine Cabinets
Adherence to a medicine regimen is central to good health outcomes of people of all ages. However, evidence suggests there is an increase in the number of people failing to complete their course of medicines an...
Medicine Adherence
Osteoporosis is a condition that results in the loss of bone strength, or bone density. This makes bones more fragile and more likely to break. It occurs when bones lose minerals, such as calcium, faster than t...
Osteoporosis
Are Natural Medicines Safe?In Australia, traditional, herbal, natural and alternative medicines and remedies are referred to as ‘complementary medicines’. Many people believe complementary medicine...
Natural Medicines
Men approach their health and well-being in a sometimes cavalier manner which puts them in danger of disease or perhaps even early death.Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, released in 2014, show ...
Men's Health
Staying Healthy in PregnancyWithout a doubt, birth is the most significant event in our life. Nonetheless, the previous nine months or so is also pretty important, both for mother and child. We’ve all ha...
Pregnancy Health
Migraines and other types of headaches (like sinus and tension headaches) are painful and can greatly impact your quality of life. They usually also involve other symptoms that can be as distressing as the head...
Pain Management - Migraine
Managing Persistant PainWe all suffer pain from time to time. Pain is an important signal that our body has been damaged in some way; and so attention is required to treat or remedy that damage.Pain can be acut...
Pain Management - Chronic
Many medicines, or particular pack sizes of medicines, are only available through your community pharmacy, and some you need a doctor’s prescription for.Even for medicines available without a prescriptio...
Scheduling of Medicines
When you buy prescription or over-the-counter medicines and other pharmacy products such as supplements, information is provided on the label to help you better understand and use the product correctly.The labe...
Reading Labels
Psoriasis is an inflammatory skin condition which, while not contagious, affects about three per cent of all Australians.It is actually an auto-immune disease were the immune system is overactive and causes new...
Psoriasis
No Safety In Secondhand Smoke!The epidemic of tobacco use is one of the greatest public health threats the world has faced.Smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable death. In fact, tobacco is the only...
Smoking Issues
If you have had chickenpox at some stage in your life, you need to be alert for the symptoms of shingles.After you’ve had chickenpox, the virus that caused it stays in the nerve cells near the spine, but...
Shingles
Community pharmacies have long provided services related to sexual health through the provision of information and advice, in addition to a wide range of products.These community pharmacies also are a primary s...
Sexual Health
Summer brings with it the dangers of added exposure to the sun and outdoors, exposure which can lead to skin damage and the possible risk of skin cancer.Skin cancer is an all-too-common form of cancer in Austra...
Sun Safety
Suspect A Stroke? Think Fast!Heart and blood-vessel disease, known medically as cardiovascular disease, remains Australia’s number one killer. It affects nearly 2.5 million Australians. Together, heart a...
Stroke
It will come as no surprise to most people that as a society we are becoming increasingly stressed.This was confirmed by the Australian Psychological Society which released a survey in 2013 showing Australians ...
Stress
No carbs for you! No second helpings! You know you can’t have that!Sound familiar? Women all over Australia who care for a spouse, child or elderly parent with diabetes often find themselves in the diffi...
The Sweet Life
The community pharmacy system in Australia is recognised as world-best and the expertise and knowledge of your pharmacist means healthcare is available to you in a convenient, accessible and affordable manner.W...
The Benefits of your Local Pha...
Health conversations for both parents and children as they start schoolThe school year brings up a variety of health issues for both parents and children. At some point every parent has to make a judgment call ...
Teaching Healthy Habits
Australians love travelling but all too often the stories of the fun times are overshadowed by tales of sickness and illness. In fact, people getting sick on their travels is a very common occurrence and some G...
Travel Health
First aid kits carry vital tools and equipment that might help save a life during an emergency. It is important that the contents of the kit are suitable and your community pharmacist can advise on how to put t...
Travel First Aid Kits
Tinea is a fungal infection of the skin which, although quite common, needs to be treated to prevent it spreading further. The best-known tinea infection is athlete’s foot where the foot can become itchy...
Tinea
The Wonderful World Of Vitamin DIn the early part of the 20th century it was realised that rickets – a disease characterised by poor bone development, frequent fractures and growth disturbance – w...
Vitamin D
Urinary tract infections, or UTIs as they are more commonly known, are a common medical condition which particularly affect women, babies and the elderly. In fact, UTIs are the second most common type of infect...
Urinary Tract Infections
Travelling with Children ChecklistHave you ever looked forward to a family holiday for months only to wish you had never left home? How is it that holidays, illness and ailments always seem to go together? Your...
Travelling with Children
Our skin is the largest organ of our body and it is both versatile and amazingly complex. It is soft and pliable to allow us to move freely while also being tough enough to protect the parts of the body beneath...
Your Skin
Worms in humans are usually associated with children but the reality is that the most common worm, the threadworm, can affect anyone regardless of age or sex.The threadworm, sometimes called the pinworm, makes ...
Worms
Are Australians Obese?It has been estimated that, sometime within the past few weeks, the world’s population has ticked over the seven billion mark. It seems we’re populating the world at an ever ...
Weight Control
Where to locate
O'Loughlin's Medical Pharmacy
Level 2, Shop 126 (next to Medical Centre), St Ives Shopping Village, 166 Mona Vale Road, St Ives, NSW, 2075
Level 2, Shop 126 (next to Medical Centre), St Ives Shopping Village, 166 Mona Vale Road, St Ives, NSW, 2075
