Clinical services

Overcoming hunger pains will be an Auckland pharmacist’s biggest challenge when he competes on this year’s Survivor NZ

Wellington clinical pharmacist Chris Jay has been appointed to the position practice and policy manager for the Pharmaceutical Society

While most mouth ulcers will resolve quickly and require only symptomatic relief for pain, there are sometimes more serious underlying conditions that require further investigation

As well as often taking a large number of pharmaceutical medicines, older people are also big users of complementary therapies and natural products.

A year ago, pharmacist Andrew Orange left New Zealand to take up a post as chief pharmacist for the Cook Islands

Mr Harris is all about the food. He runs nutritional medicine courses for pharmacists and believes pharmacists should be health coaches rather than medicine sellers.

Huge textbooks have been written about the best ways to undertake research, how to statistically analyse data and how to interpret research findings.

This short article discusses some of the basic principles health professionals should employ when looking for studies and assessing their results, to decide how they should be used when giving advice to patients.

Joints allow us to jump, dance and pick up our kids but, for many people, they can hinder even the most basic movement.

The biggest culprit for joint pain, and the leading cause of disability in New Zealand adults, is arthritis.

Professor Carlo Marra is upfront about the reason he went in to pharmacy: "I thought it would be a great place to meet girls," he says of his decision to attend pharmacy school in Canada. Today, as the dean of the University of Otago School of Pharmacy, he has certainly come a long way.