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A Canterbury doctor is accused of professional misconduct after she allegedly imported and prescribed unapproved medicines to 29 patients and gave “inaccurate” and “misleading” advice about Covid-19

Vanda Symon started out as a pharmacist but now juggles a range of diverse roles, as she tells Natasha Jojoa Burling

A month on from pharmacies getting the green light to vaccinate infants, only one pharmacy in New Zealand is approved to deliver the new service

Hate tobacco and dislike intensely the way tobacco companies operate, says specialist GP and Māori health researcher Sue Crengle

Former deputy prime minister Paula Bennett has been appointed Pharmac’s new board chair, as the Government pledged to boost the agency’s funding by around $400 million a year over the next four years

Samoa has declared a dengue outbreak with over 200 confirmed cases, and health officials estimating many more have already been infected

Thousands of people have signed a petition to try to prevent Pharmac from delisting a popular type of insulin pump, but an endocrinologist says the two proposed alternatives are also “very effective”. And the funding of continuous glucose monitors is expected to lead to more equitable treatment

Medsafe is aware an online drug retailer is offering Kiwi consumers a drug reserved for type-2 diabetics for weight loss, with no prescription required

Dispensing data for COVID-19 antivirals suggest there may have been inequitable access to the treatments

A former health researcher says a claim over 2000 deaths are caused in New Zealand by medication errors is a gross overestimation