Pharmacy Practice

Proposed changes to regulations around vaping may affect the 370 pharmacies which stock Vapix, one of the big brands of vaping

 From a sudden death on a Mt Albert pharmacy shop floor to illegal abortions and tooth extractions, retired pharmacist Grahame Hamblin’s self-published book Pharmacy of Yesteryear is crammed with anecdotes and musings from retired New Zealand pharmacists 

Consumer New Zealand, a watchdog organisation “dedicated to getting New Zealanders a fairer deal”, is in hot water with the pharmacy sector after posting on social media a 2003 cover highly critical of the profession

The fickle year of 2020 for pharmacy has felt like a game of Monopoly. That seemingly never-ending game named ­after the domination of a market by a single entity

For those of us lucky enough to have time off over the summer, it feels as if this year our break will be more of a hiatus, a brief shelter from the storm, before plunging back in to face whatever may come next year

Get the tinsel out, untangle those Christmas lights, dust off a few pairs of those somewhat naff yet all-too-cute reindeer antlers and get decorating to go in the draw for Pharmacy Today’s competition

Pharmacy Today reporter Jonathan Chilton-Towle speaks to health minister Andrew Little about his plans for the pharmacy sector

Testimony on day two of the chief coroner’s inquest into what role a Pharmac epilepsy drug brand switch played in the deaths of six people has revealed more confusion

For those of us lucky enough to have time off over the summer, it feels as if this year our break will be more of a hiatus, a brief shelter from the storm, before plunging back in to face whatever may come next year

Screening for hepatitis C (HCV) needs to be rolled out in pharmacy and needle exchange programmes if New Zealand wants to eliminate the life-threatening disease, says Ed Gane, a liver specialist and co-author of a study published in the New Zealand Medical Journal in November