Medicines and Therapies

Artemisia annua extract is being classified as a prescription medicine from today, following a recommendation from the Medicines Classification Committee (MCC).
 

Pharmaceutical Society president Ian McMichael is not surprised Budget 2020 has nothing for pharmacy, and urges health authorities to fund pharmacy to do more for their communities

Opposition health spokesperson Michael Woodhouse claims health minister David Clark has used creative accounting to make old funding seem new, while injecting little into the drug-funding agency’s now billion-dollar annual budget 

The stock shortages during the COVID-19 crisis are the worst Sara Dougherty, the dispensary manager at Auckland’s Unichem Milford, has seen in her entire pharmacy career

Pharmac has announced an extension to the feedback submission deadline for its proposal to add 31 medications that can be supplied under stat dispensing. 

Experts are urging people with high blood pressure to keep taking their medications as usual during the COVID-19 epidemic

Pharmacists have been asked to limit the dispensing of funded medicines to a one-month supply in response to the COVID-19 crisis

PHARMAC is placing temporary dispensing limits on all funded community medicines from Friday 27 March 2020

The reclassification of codeine-containing medicines will go ahead this year after the final objection to the change was determined to be invalid

The lobby group for OTC medicine makers is changing its name to better reflect its purpose