Medicines and Therapies

A multi-media toolkit aims to help reduce stigma and discrimination towards people with mental health and addiction issues, and reduce physical inequities in their healthcare, Paulette Crowley writes

Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports on a burgeoning pharmacy service for patients with a common sleep disorder

Healthcare Handbook technical editor Carmen Fookes discusses asthma, from its pathophysiology to currently recommended treatments

Access to the first preventive medicine for COVID-19 will be limited to a very targeted group of severely immunocompromised people via hospital specialists, says RNZCGP medical director Bryan Betty 

Virginia McMillan follows up on the cancer-drug trial she first reported in 2017, when patients with glioblastoma were being recruited to test a regimen of repurposed drugs

Medsafe is urging feedback from pharmacists about safety warnings on some eye drops 

Pharmacists can help patients with osteoarthritis pain as part of allied health teams, expert tells Paulette Crowley

A government announcement that pharmacists could dispense two COVID-19 antivirals without prescription from 28 July created a stir last month, reports Jonathan Chilton-Towle

After a career spanning 55 years, Auckland pharmacist Warren Flaunty is exiting the sector “for good”. 

Pharmacists can help patients with osteoarthritis pain as part of allied health teams, expert tells Paulette Crowley