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Pharmacist and medical herbalist Phil Rasmussen delves into the evidence for using astragalus for a wide range of ills

Gastroenterologist Alan Fraser says there has been exceptional progress with the diagnostic and treatment tools required to eliminate hepatitis C, but the strategies that utilise them are simply not good enough 

Pharmacist Amber Young reviews everything you need to know about immunisation during pregnancy, including the role of pharmacists in improving maternal immunisation coverage 

New guidelines for asthma management were published in 2020. Pharmacist prescriber Helen Cant outlines what has changed in guideline recommendations and, in collaboration with medical writer Gayle Robins, discusses strategies for reducing the disproportionate asthma burden in Māori and Pacific peoples

Máté Hegedus-Gaspar takes a close look at an HDC case, where a baby was incorrectly dispensed methadone, to extract lessons for pharmacists and technicians

Healthcare Handbook technical editor Carmen Fookes discusses urticaria, including its causes and treatment

Long COVID has the potential to be a long-lasting health burden, but pharmacist and medical herbalist Phil Rasmussen writes there are already many herbs that can help with the wide-ranging symptoms

In part two of a series on how pharmacists can play a role in reducing the “pill burden”, clinical pharmacist for Tend Health, Katrina Azer, outlines the process of deprescribing