Research

AFT Pharmaceuticals and the medicinal cannabis company SETEK have announced they will collaborate on research, development and commercialisation of medicinal cannabis products

A paper on fish oil supplements published in the New Zealand Medical Journal that was criticised by Natural Health Products New Zealand has been retracted at the authors' request due to calculation errors

Auckland DHB is the medical study, drug and device trials capital of New Zealand, official information shows

Auckland pharmacists are helping University of Auckland researchers find out if a salt reduction mobile phone app and switching to low-sodium table salt can lower blood pressure

Delegating the final prescription check to pharmacy technicians could be a win-win for pharmacists, patients and pharmacy owners, according to University of Queensland research

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

Most patients are shocked to discover pharmacists aren’t funded to provide many of the free patient services they use, a pilot study indicates

New Zealand may have side-stepped an opioid death epidemic, but zopiclone and clozapine death figures spark alarm 

Prescribers and patients are to get detailed knowledge to help in deciding whether to start aspirin to prevent onset of cardiovascular disease

Domestic violence victims are more likely to make multiple requests for ECP, study finds