Infectious Disease

Screening for hepatitis C needs to be rolled out in pharmacy and needle exchange programmes if New Zealand wants to eliminate the life-threatening disease, says Ed Gane, a liver specialist and co-author of a study published in the New Zealand Medical Journal

With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging overseas, sneezes are not going unnoticed. GP Jo Scott-Jones reviews the facts about sneezing, including how we sneeze and the many things that might make us sneeze in the first place

The Medicines Classification Committee has recommended pharmacists and interns who have successful trained as vaccinators be able to administer the HPV vaccine

Studies of the SARS-CoV-2 genome have indicated one of the main strains is more infectious than others, but it isn’t clear why it is becoming dominant 

Pharmacies are being encouraged to contact their DHB to see how they can participate in a $40 million measles vaccination catch-up scheme announced by the Government today

In the post-lockdown world, there’s still plenty to be done in community pharmacy to control res­piratory infections to keep staff and other patients well, writes infectious disease specialist Richard Everts 

A vaccine against COVID-19 is urgently needed if we’re to stop the virus spreading and prevent potentially millions of further deaths. We’re now one step closer to that goal

The experimental COVID-19 decoy drug made by New Zealand researchers has been found in laboratory tests to slash the coronavirus’ infectivity 

New Zealand moved to Alert Level 2 on 14 May, but for the majority of ­pharmacies not much changed.