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The Pharmacy Council is going ahead with its proposed $75 increase to the Annual Practising Certificate fee this year, despite opposition from the profession

The Red Sea conflict has already started to delay shipments of medicines to New Zealand

Pharmaceutical Society president Rhiannon Braund, currently a professor at the University of Otago, will lead the University of Waikato’s pharmacy school, as Natasha Jojoa Burling reports

A pharmacist working towards a business degree at the University of Canterbury has won an international award for software designed to reduce medication errors

A study that confirms links between Long Covid and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) could be beneficial for advancing treatment for both diseases, a researcher says

The Government should invest in stretched general practices to boost childhood immunisation rates before funding pharmacies to immunise infants, argues General Practice Owners Association chair Angus Chambers

The latest data on the number of New Zealanders prescribed diabetes drugs dulaglutide and empagliflozin has been labelled as “impressive” by an Auckland-based specialist who campaigned for years to get them funded

Mental health pharmacist Keith Crump is retiring after 50 years of work in the field. He talks to Natasha Jojoa Burling about trying to make a difference 

A Hawke’s Bay pharmacy has hit the jackpot for a customer by selling a million-dollar Lotto ticket in December

Pharmac and Te Whatu Ora want community pharmacies to be offering childhood immunisations from March