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Pharmacists have been instructed to dispense just one week of 20 mg fluoxetine at a time, a change upsetting to some patients 

Efforts are under way to get pharmacies in Hawke’s Bay open, after Cyclone Gabrielle cut power, internet and telecommunications to much of the area

“It must be a slow news day if you want to talk to me,” jokes Jerome Ng, the newly appointed clinical director of clinical governance at Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukau

Green Cross Health regional manager Bronwen Shepherd is calling for volunteers to assist Hawke’s Bay pharmacies in the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle, which has seriously damaged the region’s power grid

Thousands of Kiwi women have signed a petition to Pharmac seeking fully funded oestrogen gels 

Pharmacies in Northland are dealing with power cuts and blocked roads as Post-Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle makes landfall in the Far North this week

Pharmacist Claire Salter gave up her full-time job to spend the whole of 2022 in a te reo Māori immersion course. She writes the experience has changed the way she thinks

Over the past 48 years, Keith Crump has tried most of the opportunities a career in pharmacy can offer, but finds himself drawn back to his first love – the psych unit. He talks to Natasha Jojoa Burling

Almost 120,000 courses of Covid-19 antivirals have made it into New Zealand homes, but health officials are not tracking whether the drugs are fulfilling their promise to keep people out of hospital

Journalist Zahra Shahtahmasebi visits the Cook Islands on a scholarship and delves deep into the workings of the nation’s health system, including the hospital pharmacy