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Auckland GP and addiction specialist Graham Gulbransen is challenging the Ministry of Health to consider him a spe­cialist in prescribing medicinal cannabis

Wanting to head off a winter surge in antibiotics use, and to slow the spread of antimicrobial resistance, Pharmac and GPs are getting tougher on colds and coughs 

As Cabinet considers the business case for an electronic health record, across Tasman thousands of Australians are opting out of a newly launched record

Our brief is broad – if it affects pharmacy its business, staff, patients or ethos, we’re interested. That's alot of articles.

European and US medicines regulators are all over quinolone and fluoroquinolone antibiotics, but NZ prescribing is common and sometimes inappropriate 

An Auckland pharmacist has returned with tales to tell and photos to share after a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Antarctica

Auckland University’s Trudi Aspden and Lynne Petersen have won best oral presentation at the Life Long Learning in Pharmacy Conference in Brisbane

Cannabis-based medicine is a rapidly emerging field, so it is important that practical, evidence-based guidance and clinical efficacy evaluation tools are made available to support health professionals’ decision-making

The NZMA is concerned about a draft code of practice put forward by the Pharmacy Council for clinical pharmacists working in general practice, describing it as unnecessary and perplexing 

Chemist Warehouse is a mar­keting powerhouse that suc­cessfully spends millions of dollars to look cheap and it’s likely to dominate New Zealand’s phar­macy space with the same strategy, marketing experts say