Medicines and Therapies

A 22-year-old man has been charged after prescription pills were found inside McDonald’s sundaes

Dunedin pharmacists are hitting back at claims they are charging prostate cancer patients too much for sildenafil

More people could be cured of hepatitis C with better support for general practice and greater cohesion in the health system, says gastroenterologist Alex Lampen-Smith

Pharmacists are being asked to have their say on proposed changes to how Pharmac presents medicine information to make it easier to find and use.

A recommendation that codeine-based painkillers be removed from pharmacy shelves has pharmacists, industry bodies and academics questioning the extent of opioid addiction in New Zealand

The New Zealand AIDS Foundation is welcoming a Pharmac decision to grant access to a preventive treatment for people at high risk of contracting HIV

Long-term use of diclofenac without gastro-protective prophylaxis contributed to the death of a

The New Zealand AIDS Foundation applauds PHARMAC’s decision to become one of the first countries in the world to publicly fund the HIV-prevention drug Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) – meaning those at high risk of HIV have another way to protect themselves

New chair of Medicines New Zealand, Dr Lee Mathias, says her goal is to use the new position to improve access to breakthrough medicines

People suffering from neck and head cancer, who can’t use chemotherapy, will soon have subsidised access to a new drug