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Routine childhood vaccines look to be on the list of vaccines the Ministry of Health is seeking to have reclassified so pharmacists can administer them

Researchers are urging Pharmac to fund an automated treatment for type 1 diabetes, which costs $4000 a year and is better at keeping blood glucose levels under control 

New research suggests short-acting asthma inhalers are being overused and long-acting ones are underutilised, especially for Māori and Pacific peoples 

Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand is still processing Integrated Community Pharmacy Service Agreement variations, but to date 880 contract holders are recorded as accepting the offered variation

Dunedin plumber Rory Nairn died from myocarditis caused by the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, a coroner has found

Pharmacy cannot enforce mask compliance, says one health leader, but latest guidance from the Ministry of Health suggests it may not even be required

An 89-year-old woman who was prescribed Paxlovid despite having a contraindication for the COVID-19 antiviral collapsed four days later and was taken to hospital

Hutt Valley pharmacist prescriber Kerry Muller has won the Clinical Advisory Pharmacists Association’s inaugural Dr John Dunlop Award

Clinical trials investigating new uses for existing medicines are being run out of a new $50 million medical research and development facility in west Auckland

Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports on a burgeoning pharmacy service for patients with a common sleep disorder