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Rural pharmacy owners often say it’s difficult to attract young pharmacists to small towns, but one 25-year-old can’t stay away from the tiny settlement of Cromwell

A Christchurch pharmacist is proposing high-margin hemp products as a solution to financial woes for community pharmacy

Helen Cant, one of Tokoroa's two pharmacist prescribers, is the Pharmaceutical Society's new Pharmacist of the Year

The pressure’s on for consistent cancer care around the country. Experts say that will take more than just more money for medicines but that’s become the focus of much of the coverage and comment in the media

The Māori Pharmacists’ Association held its annual symposium in early June, attracting about 50 people. Discussions at the Auckland-based event included the status of rongoa Māori, institutional racism in the echelons of health bureaucracy and the benefits of hemp products

Pharmacists are now permitted to dispense the sleep medication melatonin to insomnia patients without a prescription, but it may be two months before pharmacists can actually offer the new service.

One of Palmerston North's community pharmacies has followed Countdown's lead in dropping $5 prescription charges, to the dismay of others in the city.

The number of registered pharmacist prescribers in New Zealand sits at a meagre 19, but health minister David Clark says he wants more

A knife-wielding man who burgled a Timaru pharmacy last month was stopped from fleeing the scene by members of the public

When the Unichem Wyndham Street Pharmacy opened in 2015, predictions for its future were glossy