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Chemist Warehouse. The name alone can cause angst for pharmacy owners operating in areas too far away from the retail giant to feel a blow to their books.

To celebrate International Women's Day, we are publishing this feature story from October last year, when reporter Miranda Cook looked at the place of women in pharmacy and talked to women who have broken down barriers in what once was a male preserve

A senior pharmacy technician is calling for the profession to be registered to help advance technician roles and help shoulder some of pharmacists’ workplace pressures

The Pharmaceutical Society is working on a quality improvement programme, with a 10-point plan for pharmacists over three years, writes Miranda Cook

New Zealand may have side-stepped an opioid death epidemic, but zopiclone and clozapine death figures spark alarm 

Scorching heat and steep hills were no obstacle for a Rotorua pharmacist who power-walked a 50km course of the Tarawera Ultramarathon, in just eight hours and 44 minutes

Noise around splitting of dispensing and advice pharmacy roles has reared its controversial head in the draft version of the Therapeutic Products Bill

Last week’s surprise change to cough medicine classifications will result in more than 200,000 products being recalled and cost manufacturers hundreds of thousands of dollars, a pharmaceutical industry body says.

Startling details have emerged of a case involving dozens of pharmacists in the upper North Island dispensing an illegal prescription for popular painkiller tramadol and the antibiotic, metronidazole

Supermarkets in Auckland were this morning selling dextromethorphan-containing cough medicines at marked-down prices, five days after a sudden law change making these items pharmacist-only