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GP and former American Pub­lic Health Association president Camara Jones got the RNZCGP conference off to a powerful start with an opening keynote address using allegories about racism

A new pharmacy opens shortly to serve Pegasus Health’s 24 Hour Surgery, after the clinic’s messy split from Urgent Pharmacy Christchurch last year

A meta-analysis of polypill trials for cardiovascular disease prevention has Auckland professor of general practice Bruce Arroll sold on the idea 

Grant Bai, chief executive of Green Cross Health's pharmacy and medical divisions, has resigned 

Whenever a change is proposed to the new pharmacy services contract, pharmacy owners will be able to choose whether they want to accept or decline it and this offers flexibility never before had by contract holders, according the chief executive of the Pharmacy Guild

Dozens of Australian women have signed up to be part of a class action against the pharmaceutical giant, Bayer, relating to health problems they say were caused by the sterilisation device, Essure

Police in Samoa have filed a manslaughter charge against a nurse over the death of two babies last month after they received the MMR vaccine

A patient group in calling on community pharmacists to play a central role in early diagnosis of the head and neck cancer

Pharmacists around the country seem to mostly be supportive of the revamped pharmacy services contract presented to them last week

A second medicinal cannabis bill has entered the fray, with more detail on where GPs would sit on the path to patients accessing medicinal cannabis