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Otago pharmacy students are at the National Australian Pharmacy Students’ Association congress hearing from key note speakers on how to land their dream job and make a difference

Two tuberculosis outbreaks connected to Kāwhia last year will spell 18 months of treatment for those infected and could be linked back to grandparents of the first patient 

Pharmacy students will swap their text books for running shoes to take part in the 46th Ports of Auckland Round the Bays to raise money for charity

A Hamilton pharmacist is disappointed a pharmacist hasn’t been appointed to the Government’s mental health panel, saying it’s because the profession isn’t “sexy” enough

A doctor in is calling for health guidelines to address the vitamin D deficiency in mothers and their children in southern New Zealand

A PHO has launched a new aid to improve quality of care for people taking antipsychotic medications 

Calls are growing for reduced prescriptions of fluoroquinolones due to increasing resistance and negative side effects

A New Zealand Medical Journal paper on cancer in adolescents and young adults says this country lags behind others in survival rates for the 15 to 29 age group   

A ban from selling codeine-based cold and flu tablets OTC from January 2020 has been recommended by Medsafe’s Medicines Classification Committee