Pharmacy Practice

Game of Thrones’ multi-faceted storyline uncannily reflects the goings-on in the pharmacy sector, writes ASB Bank head of healthcare David Rhind

It’s Heart Rhythm Week and pharmacists are encouraged to check customers’ pulses to detect atrial fibrillation  

A Havelock North pharmacy has been voted favourite local health or fitness provider for the third time in three years 

Registered pharmacist and PhD student Yasmin Abdul Aziz has won an award for a research poster at an overseas conference

A pharmacist has launched a new hemp-based skincare range and will soon have a hemp snack bar on supermarket shelves

Tauranga Hospital’s pharmacy has a new member of staff – but she’s not human

Medicines New Zealand has been called out over a long-running campaign to push Pharmac into paying for more expensive cancer drugs by getting stories about patients with terminal illnesses into the media

Official information on non-steroidal anti-inflammatories is changing, to make people more aware of the drugs’ cardiovascular risk 

More people are heading to pharmacies for strep throat swabbing this winter, but the statistics suggest swabbing alone is not lowering rheumatic fever rates

Retail manager Janet Morgan is so close to the pharmacist she works for she was at her employer’s granddad’s bedside when he died.