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Green Cross Health regional manager Bronwen Shepherd is calling for volunteers to assist Hawke’s Bay pharmacies in the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle, which has seriously damaged the region’s power grid

Thousands of Kiwi women have signed a petition to Pharmac seeking fully funded oestrogen gels 

Pharmacies in Northland are dealing with power cuts and blocked roads as Post-Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle makes landfall in the Far North this week

Pharmacist Claire Salter gave up her full-time job to spend the whole of 2022 in a te reo Māori immersion course. She writes the experience has changed the way she thinks

Over the past 48 years, Keith Crump has tried most of the opportunities a career in pharmacy can offer, but finds himself drawn back to his first love – the psych unit. He talks to Natasha Jojoa Burling

Almost 120,000 courses of Covid-19 antivirals have made it into New Zealand homes, but health officials are not tracking whether the drugs are fulfilling their promise to keep people out of hospital

Journalist Zahra Shahtahmasebi visits the Cook Islands on a scholarship and delves deep into the workings of the nation’s health system, including the hospital pharmacy 

Letting pharmacists prescribe S4 (prescription only) drugs would save the health budget $700 million a year and prevent millions of GP visits, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia has claimed, as its political lobbying ramps up

University of Otago researchers are calling for the $5 prescription copayment to be scrapped after their randomised control trial showed the fee is damaging the health of vulnerable populations

Hawke’s Bay clinicians have described what they say is the first reported case of COVID-associated bilateral anterior necrotising scleritis, a serious eye condition, in a double-vaccinated patient