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Increasing recreational use of ketamine has prompted a warning over its potential for bladder damage, and an appeal for healthcare practitioners to ask about drug use if they suspect ketamine bladder syndrome

In a fast-tracked process, Medsafe has approved 11 cold and flu medicines containing pseudoephedrine and the first of them may be available in June

Auckland hospital pharmacist Michael Hammond is the new president of the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand

Medsafe has seized two moisturisers because they contain a ‘potent steroid’ which is not allowed in New Zealand 

Around 1500 pharmacists will be able to do three free courses thanks to $100,000 funding from Te Whatu Ora

Te Whatu Ora has told pharmacy sector leaders it is preparing for the $5 prescription fee to be returned on 1 July

A bill that will allow pseudoephedrine cold and flu medicines to be sold by pharmacists again has passed its third reading in Parliament 

Pharmacy Council chair Arthur Bauld has been re-elected to the position for the third time

Health minister Shane Reti appears to be distancing himself from fallout arising from a Ministry of Health proposal to axe the Suicide Prevention Office