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The Pharmacy Council has removed a controversial change from its revised code of ethics that would have made it ethical for pharmacists to promote products not backed up by evidence of efficacy.

The Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner released two reports in July that were critical of pharmacists over dispensing errors in two unrelated incidents.

Pharmacists and the wider healthcare system around the country were put under pressure by an influx of winter illness

Two young pharmacists represented New Zealand at the recent World Health Assembly in Geneva.

Pharmacists are surprised at the result of a study calling for an urgent update to guidelines around the antipsychotic drug clozapine

Christchurch's Urgent Pharmacy and the local Pegasus Health PHO are going through a messy divorce

The Pharmacy Council has removed a controversial change from its revised code of ethics that would have made it ethical for pharmacists to promote products not backed up by evidence of efficacy.

Medsafe has seized more than 52,000 units of pharmacy-only medicines, worth nearly a quarter-million dol­lars, that were being illegally sold by Auckland health food stores.

Many New Zealand pharmacists serving in World War I felt their skills were not well utilised, according to an academic.    

Winter is here and with it colds, flu, and misinformation about both these ailments often spread by over-reliance on Dr Google