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Many in the New Zealand pharmacy community are mourning the loss of a kind and generous educator who died earlier this month

The National Party says it will set aside $10 million to support expanding the number of services offered by pharmacies if it wins the upcoming general election

Australian pharmacists may soon be able to sell some medicinal cannabis products without a prescription following a recent decision from the Therapeutic Goods Administration

A move to reclassify the cough suppressant pholcodine as pharmacist-only has been delayed until at least October

The death by overdose of a Dunedin student has sparked calls to bring paracetamol into line with UK standards and restrict it to pharmacy-only sales. 

The Pharmacy Guild has joined the Pharmaceutical Society in asking the Pharmacy Council to delay its proposed changes to pharmacist recertification

The Pharmacy Council’s proposed changes to recertification requirements will rely on pharmacists’ honesty to ensure culturally safe practice standards are being followed

New pharmacies will once again be permitted in the MidCentral DHB area when the DHB implements its pharmacy contracting policy at the end of this month

Pharmaceutical Society president Ian McMichael is calling for the ­annual pharmacy contract review negotiations to come out from behind closed doors

When Auckland pharmacist Marium Slaimankhel travelled to Afghanistan last September to get married she thought by now she would be living happily back in New Zealand with her new husband, and maybe even showing him the breathtaking beauty of Queenstown in winter