Medicines and Therapies

An Auckland pharmacist and academic is concerned the planned roadside drug-testing regime may unfairly inconvenience some drivers appropriately taking prescription medicines

A feasiblity trial on the potential therapeutic use of mushroom-derived psilocybin is set to begin this month

Changes to the Medicinal Cannabis Scheme allowing New Zealand companies to export have been called a breakthrough for the sector by industry leaders

Jonathan Chilton-Towle speaks to Natalie Gauld about her fundraising efforts for motor neurone disease

Sexual health specialist Massimo Giola looks at the evidence for doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis as a prevention tool for bacterial sexually transmitted infections

Healthcare Handbook technical editor Carmen Pope discusses the symptoms, causes and treatment of dry eye

Health researcher Noni Richards delves into the recommended dietary intake of vitamin C, then examines the evidence for some of its therapeutic uses

Pharmacist and medical herbalist Phil Rasmussen looks at the complex issue of appropriate dosing for herbal medicines

About one-third of adults have high blood pressure. Two-thirds of these have uncontrolled high blood pressure

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon contemplated “working outside the Pharmac system” to implement the National Party’s election promise to fund 13 cancer treatments that were available in Australia, but not New Zealand