Medicines and Therapies

Pharmacists being able to dispense the gout prevention medication allopurinol without a prescription is one step closer to reality following the latest Medicines Classification Committee meeting.

Two bids to widen access to higherstrength doses of ibuprofen have been declined by the Medicines Classification Committee.

Professor Ngaire Kerse says new medicines for heart failure have appeared in recent years. With optimised use, these support the main goal of treatment, which is periods of stability with good quality of life

There has been a high uptake by Māori and Pacific of new diabetes drugs under Pharmac’s first ethnicity-based funding criteria – a publicity campaign to encourage more uptake is to start soon 

Pharmacists dispensing gout-preventing allopurinol without a prescription is one step closer to reality following the latest Medicines Classification Committee meeting

Groups who suffer the highest burden of type 2 diabetes have the lowest level of adherence to effective medication to control it, a University of Otago study has found

Your recent article “Spotlight: Head colds” (July issue) on managing the common cold recommended that ibuprofen should be taken with food.

There is not yet a date for when the legislation replacing the Medicines Act 1981 will be introduced to Parliament

There is not yet a date for when the legislation replacing the Medicines Act 1981 will be introduced to Parliament

AFT Pharmaceuticals has gained regulatory approval to sell Maxigesic Oral Liquid in Italy and Malta.