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Six Invercargill pharmacy staff ran in the Queenstown marathon at the weekend, along with honorary Sylvan Bank Pharmacy team member Claudia Stevenson, a low-vision athlete from Melbourne who ran the marathon distance with pharmacy owner Kim Forsyth as her guide. 

Health and beauty products delivered directly from your chemist to your door? A bit of take-out with your retail therapy, perhaps?  

The World Pharmacy Council has appointed Pharmacy Guild president Keshree Naidoo-Rauf as its Pacific representative

A doctoral candidate’s research into patterns of prescribing and how this may influence patients’ recovery from stroke in New Zealand has been internationally recognised

Hospital pharmacists are preparing for their annual conference in Dunedin on 23–24 November, with a theme of “The future of New Zealand Pharmacy – it’s a stunner!” 

Prescriptions for medicinal cannabis increased 14 times in four years, and there has been a big shift from CBD oral liquids to much more potent THC-dominated flower/bud products, a recent study of New Zealand’s medicinal cannabis scheme has found.  

Supporting Gumboot Day opens up a space for conversations with customers, says Allison Gallagher, senior pharmacist at Sanders Pharmacy in Te Awamutu

Eighteen months on from Cyclone Gabrielle, pharmacists are worried lessons have not been learned from that disaster, as Jody Hopkinson reports

Santa Claus’ southernmost letter box has opened in an Invercargill pharmacy, inviting children to send their Christmas wishlist to the man in red and his team at the North Pole.  

The Pharmacy Council is asking for feedback on its proposed increase to its combined disciplinary levy and annual practising fee, which could exceed more than $1000 next year