Medicines and Therapies

A group of pharmacists who pushed for prescription fees to be removed is vowing to continue to fight to keep this change in the wake of National’s latest health policy announcement.

A National Government will pay for 13 cancer treatments that are helping extend survival rates in Australia, by making them available to patients in New Zealand, National Leader Christopher Luxon says.

Pharmac is preparing to fund more brands of the hormone replacement treatment oestradiol in response to an ongoing supply shortage. 

A Cuban chemical research scientist on a whistlestop tour of New Zealand has shared the experience of her country’s biotech industry and COVID-19 vaccine development

The deputy health and disability commissioner has asked a pharmacist to apologise to a deceased patient’s family and told a pharmacy to amend its procedures after the pharmacist failed to pick up an intern’s dispensing error.

Non-practising pharmacist Sarah Mooney outlines a comprehensive approach to managing severely dry skin, incorporating both preventive measures and therapeutic interventions

Treatments for cancer will soon be at the same level as those used on HIV and COVID-19, says David Thomas, principal research fellow and chief executive of Australian genomic cancer medicine centre Omico

Legally the supply period for class B opioid prescriptions has now reverted back to a maximum period of one month, instead of three months

The Government is being challenged to ban direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medicines – a practice that has been a concern for a long time, says Pharmaceutical Society president Rhiannon Braund

The deputy health and disability commissioner has asked a pharmacist to apologise to a deceased patient’s family and told a pharmacy to amend its procedures after the pharmacist failed to pick up an intern’s dispensing error