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It has been 50 years since the Petone Pharmacy rugby team won the Wellington Third First Rugby Competition in 1967.

On 1 and 2 November, the surviving members of the team (except for Graeme McPherson who now lives overseas) gathered to relive their glory days in Wellington's Hutt Valley.

Roxburgh pharmacist Alastair Forbes has a new appreciation of how tough things must be for his colleagues and other small businesses in Kaikoura.

A UK study has found a newly funded asthma medication is significantly more effective than other treatments, giving hope to over 600, 000 asthmatics in New Zealand.

Green Cross Health's pharmacy division has been the strong point of the company halfway through the current financial year.

General practice contributes to global warming by being party to rampant wastage of medicines, Wellington GP Rebecca Randerson says.

A mother and daughter pharmacy team are part of a new medical centre in the heart of a booming community east of Auckland.

A Victoria University PhD student has been awarded $345,156 to research the chemical and biological properties of traditional Pacific medicinal plants.

Pharmacist Alastair Forbes was in the backyard of his Roxburgh home yesterday frantically digging trenches as floodwaters threatened his property.

From 1 November, a sustained-release ocular implant Ozurdex (dexamethasone 700mcg) will be available and funded for eligible people with diabetic macular oedema

Samantha is a 67 year old lab assistant and grandmother with sore knees and a goal to walk the Routeburn Track in a few months. This month's care plan in The Pharmacist Clinic outlines how to help her achieve her goals.