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VAPING IS potentially harmful, research confirms, but it’s not clear yet whether it’s more damaging than smoking.

Vaping rates are rising as fast as tobacco rates are dropping, particularly in children and adolescents. Paulette Crowley takes a look at what part pharmacy could play in reducing vaping

E-lockers are used extensively in European and US pharmacies, and are now being trialled in New Zealand 

The workforce woes keep coming as being understaffed and underpaid continues to pile pressure on exhausted pharmacy staff. And fewer students are choosing to become pharmacists, reports Paulette Crowley

Health Coalition Aotearoa is calling on doctors and pharmacists to join its movement to reduce harms from tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food

Te Whatu Ora will slash 322 fulltime back-office jobs in a first wave of redundancies as part of its drive to free up resources for frontline healthcare services

Pharmacist prescriber numbers have increased by about 11 per cent in just over a year, although they still make up only a tiny proportion of all pharmacists

Treatments for cancer will soon be at the same level as those used on HIV and COVID-19, says David Thomas, principal research fellow and chief executive of Australian genomic cancer medicine centre Omico

Legally the supply period for class B opioid prescriptions has now reverted back to a maximum period of one month, instead of three months

Despite new immigration pathways, few pharmacists and technicians are arriving in New Zealand