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New Zealand is experiencing its highest peak in Covid-19 cases since December 2022, professor Michael Baker says

Using artificial intelligence to make prescribing safer for older people is at the heart of research attracting nearly $400,000 in grant funding from the Health Research Council

Bird flu has been detected in Australia, but New Zealand remains free of highly pathogenic avian influenza

AFT Pharmaceuticals has posted its best financial result on record, growing its net profit by 46 per cent in the 12 months ending March 2024

The Government’s disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora was a “brazen expression of colonial power” says a viewpoint published in the latest New Zealand Medical Journal 

Pseudoephedrine-based cold and flu medications can now be purchased from pharmacists

Rory Nairn should have been told of the possibility of myocarditis as a side-effect of the Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine by the pharmacist who administered it, says the HDC

The Government’s plan to reinstate the $5 prescription fee for most New Zealanders will lead to an increase in hospitalisations costing the country tens of millions of dollars a year, Te Herenga Waka University of Victoria researchers have found

New Zealand Customs is detaining and destroying on average 8000 packages containing medicines at the border per year, with the most commonly seized items being antibiotics