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All child and adult immunisation data is to be shifted to the new $38 million Aotearoa Immunisation Register this month as the gremlin-beset National Immunisation Register is put out to pasture

Vulnerable babies will be put at risk by an “extremely disappointing” decision to not fund a drug preventing hospitalisation with RSV, says a paediatrician.

An Auckland pharmacy has become the first in the country to be involved in a pilot campaign to ensure people with mental health and addiction challenges get the medical help they need, without discrimination

The number of people taking funded dulaglutide (Trulicity) has doubled in New Zealand over the past two years and the diabetes medicine is in short supply again, along with its alternative, Victoza (liraglutide). Natasha Jojoa Burling reports

There have been 5872 new cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand over the past week, and 19 further deaths attributed to the virus. Of the new cases, 1364 were probable cases

Pharmacy representatives deciding on the scope of a services advice group are keen to get cracking and hope the group will have some teeth this time around. 

This blood clot syndrome is known as vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT). In people with this condition, something goes wrong with the immune response and people make antibodies that can stick to one of the body’s own proteins

A pharmacy group that lobbied for the $5 prescription fee to be dropped is optimistic that the final election result will make it harder for the new Government to reintroduce the fee

The Independent Pharmacists’ Association of New Zealand is asking the Pharmacy Council to reduce the Annual Practising Certificate fee for pharmacists working part time

With smoking rates declining, some pharmacies are seeing individual patients buying up large quantities of the smoking cessation product Habitrol. Natasha Jojoa Burling reports