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A small, qualitative study of pharmacists selling complementary medicines has identified some pharmacists ­selling such products despite having concerns about their efficacy

Jo Barnes, the deputy head of the Auckland School of Pharmacy, has become the first New Zealand pharmacist be made a fellow of the International Society of Pharmacovigilance

Labour is celebrating a landslide victory tonight after winning 49% of the vote. The result means Labour could govern alone — the first time this has happened since New Zealand introduced a mixed member proportional (MMP) electoral system in 1993

A 24-year longitudinal study of 45,000 south Auckland patients estimates there are almost 19,000 extra deaths annually among Māori with type 2 diabetes

Countdown Pharmacy boss Jeremy Armes is calling on the DHBs to simplify the way pharmacies are paid for their dispensing services. 

Two pharmacists who work at Chemist Warehouse stores speak out to dispel myths about the chain’s quality of service. Anna Lee reports

Green Cross Health and Countdown are denying claims they sold masks for unfairly high prices during the COVID-19 lockdown earlier this year

This October, staff at Kensington Pharmacy and Maunu Pharmacy in Whangārei, Northland are adding a dash of pink, and the odd tutu, to their usual workwear attire to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month 

Growing up in tropical Fiji, life for pharmacist and Pharmac’s Access Equity manager Sandhaya (Sandy) Bhawan was simple, familiar and known

A GP has been criticised after prescribing a patient with a long history of mental illness a potentially dangerous amount of antidepressants