Community Pharmacy

An Otago University researcher has been recognised for influencing international treatment guidelines after proving allopurinol is a safe option for managing gout

It seems customers at an Auckland pharmacy are hoping to feel the love tonight, with the store recording a 50 per cent increase in condom sales in the lead up to Valentine’s Day

Pharmac has extended funding to cover a four-strain flu vaccine for the first time from 1 March

When Hamilton pharmacist Thomas Bennett looked around his old pharmacy, he saw customers clustered and crammed together at the dispensary waiting for ­prescriptions.

The New Zealand AIDS Foundation is delighted at Pharmac’s decision to become one of the first countries in the world to publicly fund the HIV-prevention drug pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)

A new “high-end” pharmacy has opened in Auckland’s CBD, offering Botox, a nail bar and duty-free shopping in efforts to appeal to a new market

New chair of Medicines New Zealand, Dr Lee Mathias, says her goal is to use the new position to improve access to breakthrough medicines

The ELearning team were in action at the Countdown Pharmacy two-day conference in Wiri this week.

An Oamaru pharmacist who is retiring after almost 40 years in the business says he has mixed emotions about saying goodbye to his career