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From glass bottles to plastic and medicine margins to Pharmac, pharmacy distributor Terry Cressy, who just turned 75, talks to Jody Hopkinson on the eve of his retirement

Director-general of health Diana Sarfati has announced she will quit her job, only half way through her five-year term

In support of his view that talk of health system underfunding is fake news, the health minister has cited a Ministry of Health response to an NZMJ editorial 

The team responsible for overseeing the electronic prescribing system might be about to lose their jobs, Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

Foreign interns and the pharmacy owners who employed them are shocked internship fees are increasing by 33 per cent. Jody Hopkinson reports

Claims of under-funding and under-staffing in New Zealand healthcare are ‘fake news’, says health minister Simeon Brown

Healthcare Handbook editor and clinical pharmacist Carmen Pope explains that probiotics aren’t for everyone, but by selecting a probiotic with evidence of benefit and checking for vulnerability to side effects, certain probiotics could be beneficial for some people

With oestrogen gel now funded without restrictions, sexual health specialist Massimo Giola explains who would benefit from using it for feminisation and how switching from tablets or patches might occur. This follows his December article on the use of testosterone gel for masculinisation

Below are the answers to the Healthcare Handbook Education Path quiz on probiotics