Bernadette Brown is a Scottish pharmacist who has applied her independent prescribing skills and business acumen to transforming her community pharmacy into an award-winning community health hub.
Pharmacists believe New Zealanders want pharmacists to offer more health services, but many are worried about the impact that offering new services will have on their relationship with GPs
The Health and Disability Commissioner has found a complementary health practitioner put a patient at risk when he advised him to cease taking his prescribed antidepressants
The former president of the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand was honoured for his outstanding service to the profession at last month’s PSNZ conference
Nyamuragira and nitrofurantoin – one is an antibiotic used to treat urinary tract infections and one is a volcano that recently erupted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Silver Ferns claimed an epic win over Australia in the Netball World Cup finals in July. And one of those stars usually spends her time as a locum pharmacist in Dunedin.
Nail problems are common presentations at pharmacies. Some issues, such as fungal nail infections and nail discolouration, can be managed with OTC treatments, but others will require referral to the pharmacist or GP