February 2018

We have a new government, and one of the changes we will see in terms of health policy is the legalisation of marijuana for medical use.

Imagine you have a patient named Rose who would like advice on how to source her hepatitis medications from overseas.

New Year’s resolutions are funny old things

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

Despite fewer homes having baths, bubble bath is far from obsolete, according to the pharmacists who sell it.

The back-to-school season brings with it a host of nasty ailments, including the dreaded nits, warts, worms; you name it, someone at school will have it. 

A PhD student from Victoria University of Wellington has been awarded $345,156 to research the chemical and biological properties of plants found in the Pacific that are traditionally used for medicinal purposes.

It has been 50 years since the Petone Pharmacy rugby team won the Wellington Third First Rugby Competition in 1967.

It’s five years since Countdown opened its first concept pharmacy in Wellington, but the anniversary passed with little fanfare

Kia ora everyone
I hope you all had a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.