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From next month COVID-19 antiviral treatments will be available free to people receiving disability support services and people with one or more severe health conditions making them frail or vulnerable

The Pharmaceutical Society and the Pharmacy Guild are lobbying for the minor ailments scheme to continue beyond its finish date of 30 September

More 723,000 New Zealanders were dispensed opioids in the past year, according to figures released by He Ako Hiringa

New studies are confirming earlier findings that the side effects of statins are largely “fake news”, says cardiologist Gerard Wilkins

Pharmacists across the Tasman are outraged at a new rule allowing 60-day prescriptions, to the point where a group of protesting pharmacists disrupted a session of the Australian Federal Parliament

Pharmaceutical Society members and guests said farewell and thank you to outgoing chief executive Richard Townley at the society’s spring function last night

Two months after copayments were dropped from most medicines, many still don’t know about it, and pharmacists are calling for Te Whatu Ora to do more advertising. Natasha Jojoa Burling reports

Pharmacies will not be included in the National party’s new vaccine incentives plan, health spokesperson Shane Reti has confirmed

A woman with a severe penicillin allergy died after being prescribed Augmentin despite multiple safeguards, including a medical alert necklace and prominent warning notes

A Medsafe committee says pholcodine-based dry cough syrups and lozenges, including some Difflam, Duro-Tuss and Pholcodine Linctus products, should be banned