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A resthome on Auckland’s North Shore twice provided an elderly resident with the wrong medication, in breach of her rights 

European Union-manufactured products are causing most concern for pharmacists and patients

Kaikoura Pharmacy owner David McKee has spent many years feeling frustrated and annoyed over what he sees as potentially unsafe sales of the motion sickness medicine Sea-Legs (meclozine)

The date for the reclassification of codeine coming into force will not be 31 January 2020, Medsafe group manager Chris James says

The industry body representing medicines manufacturers is concerned a lack of clarity around the upcoming codeine-containing medicines reclassification may result in a situation like the recent dextromethorphan-containing medicines “shambles”

A case involving dozens of pharmacists in the upper North Island dispensing an illegal prescription for popular painkiller tramadol and the antibiotic, metronidazole, has prominent pharmacists calling for more rapid uptake of electronic prescribing

The pharmacy sector has less than three weeks to have a say on the draft Therapeutic Products Bill, which has the potential to change the way pharmacies are licensed and operated

Two Wellington pharmacists on a mission to level the playing field on free prescriptions are determined not to give up the fight, despite a knock-back from the Commerce Commission

Using his skills to serve his own people has always been a dream for pharmacist Kevin Pewhairangi

Canterbury DHB has had to backtrack on an article published in its weekly newsletter which listed a specific pharmacy chain as a place where patients can get free nicotine replacement therapy