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If cigarette sales were restricted to pharmacies, smokers buying tobacco could be given smoking cessation counselling and nicotine replacement therapy

Tauranga Hospital pharmacist Elliot Harris wasn’t going to let a little non-commitment from his Kiwi contingent stop him from entering the team clinical competition at the IPSF 2018 World Congress 

A University of Otago PhD student's research aims to put a figure on the value of free pharmacy services and look at the money these services save by reducing hospitalisations and costs for patients with chronic conditions.

Green Cross Health is working on a medicines adherence app to not only educate and remind patients to take their meds but also motivate them to improve their health

Pharmacists are being asked to hold an amnesty for unused antibiotics in an effort to help curb drug-resistant infections

At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, the big guns on the Western Front in Europe fell silent

A curriculum overhaul of New Zealand pharmacy qualifications has put the spotlight on the needs of patients, and the first pharmacy students trained under the rejuvenated curriculum are poised to enter the workforce

A national circulation to GPs on Tuesday noted there has been an increase in meningococcal W disease, asking us to be aware of this and noting it can present in a more atypical way

Pharmacy Guild chief executive Andrew Gaudin is the sole pharmacy representative on the newly-established governance board of the Federation of Primary Health Aotearoa New Zealand

Community pharmacists are being asked to share good practices they’ve developed to ensure people with a disability have access to services