Medicines and Therapies

The Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal has fined and suspended an Auckland pharmacist for selling excessive quantities of addictive drugs to customers without a prescription

A new treatment for hepatitis C that can be delivered by GPs took up more funding than any other medicine Pharmac funded in the year to 30 June 2017.

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.

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

When we are asked about natural products, or when articles are written on them, the main and often only aspect that is discussed is whether the product works, or is likely to work

A pharmacist says he interpreted a GP’s prescription wrongly, causing him to dispense the incorrect strength of Sinemet to an older patient last year

With more than 10 per cent of New Zealanders suffering from insomnia, sleep deprivation is becoming a big issue. Samantha McPherson looks at what pharmacists can do to help tired people get the shut-eye they desperately need

On the eve of the World Hepatitis Summit in Sao Paolo, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today announced that it had secured deals for generic hepatitis C medicines for as low as US$1.40 per day, or $120 per 12-week treatment course for the two key medicines sofosbuvir and daclatasvir

A ten-minute check was all it took for one pharmacy to determine it had no batches of recalled Maxiclear products.

The news from Pharmac regarding funded melatonin is good for families with children or adolescents with insomnia secondary to neurodevelopmental disorders.