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CLINICAL PHARMACIST and Pharmacy Today columnist Katrina Azer has been named one of the world’s top 50 most influential pharmacists.

Jody Hopkinson speaks to Remya Raju, who was an assistant professor at a pharmacy college in Kerala, India and worked with her mother at the family pharmacy before immigrating to New Zealand. She now works at Mountainview Pharmacy in Taranaki

Living through the 2023 Auckland Anniversary weekend floods and Cyclone Gabrielle had a profound impact on what recent fellowship recipient and pharmacist Emma Lydon decided to focus on for her postdoctoral studies. 

Recently returned from three weeks riding on South Island bike trails on her three-wheel bike, pioneering pharmacist Natalie Gauld is asking pharmacists to share a survey she’s leading on the impacts of motor neurone disease for those with it, their family members and those recently bereaved by MND. 

HIV advocacy organisations say HIV self-screening tests being made available for the first time in New Zealand pharmacies will help normalise testing for HIV and make it more accessible

Like a real-life Frodo and Gandalf and the Fellowship of the Ring, leaders of New Zealand’s pharmacy representative groups have combined to form a pharmacy sector supergroup, but rather than battling Sauron, the Pharmacy Sector Leaders Forum will be advocating for pharmacists. 

Pharmacists around the motu are busy giving flu vaccinations, as the flu vaccination season began this week on 1 April and runs through to 1 September.  

Porirua pharmacy owner Graeme Blanchard is celebrating the high adherence rate of a gout programme he designed himself

It’s been 25 years of ups and downs and nearly all the way out of the industry for Mt Maunganui pharmacist Daphne Earles, but as she settles her pharmacy into its freshly built space, above all else, she is feeling “grateful”. 

Whanganui pharmacy owners met with their local MP recently to explain the issues faced by pharmacists in his electorate. They are encouraging pharmacists in other regions to meet with their local MPs and advocate for pharmacy.