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PHARMACY HAS A GOOD story to tell, the sector just needs better data to tell it, Canterbury Community Pharmacy Group general Aarti Patel believes

Plans to block private motor vehicles from Wellington’s CBD have some pharmacists worried their customers will be discouraged from coming in store 

The petition asking Parliament to remove prescription fees for all Community Services Card holders has closed after gaining just under 4000 signatures

Already on a sharp ascent in the world of academia Fulbright winner Joanna Hikaka has won a Vice-Chancellor's Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis at University of Auckland 

Gone are the days of the simple skincare routine of cleanse, tone and moisturise – now women will commonly use up to eight products morning and night before they look at applying make-up.

FROM THE START of next month, medicine containing pholcodine must be moved off the shelves and into the pharmacist-only section

Outreach pharmacist vaccinator Chris Leung says a potential new breed of pharmacists is emerging. He talks to Paulette Crowley about working in public health

A trial is under way to sell vibrators in selected Green Cross pharmacies across New Zealand, but what will the customers think? Paulette Crowley reports

Pharmac’s proposal to fund adrenalin auto injectors has proved hugely popular with health professionals and the public and looks set to be approved before the end of the year

Pharmacists are quietly confident they will be up to the task of offering childhood vaccinations should a proposal before the Medicines Classification Committee to expand access to vaccines get the green light