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Auckland pharmacists are helping University of Auckland researchers find out if a saltreduction mobile phone app and switching to low-sodium table salt can lower blood pressure

The Ministry of Health and Pharmac sourced 55,000 new doses of influenza vaccine last month to help relieve a nationwide shortage

The End of Life Choice Bill in its current form will not give pharmacists the chance to opt out of dispensing lethal drugs, say pharmacists opposed to the legislation

In a new era of DHBs expecting pharmacists to offer more clinical services, and a not-so-new era of rural pharmacies struggling to find workers

Pharmacists are now permitted to dispense the sleep medication melatonin to insomnia patients without a prescription, but it may be two months before pharmacists can actually offer the new service

A figure in the burgeoning medicinal cannabis industry says government intervention is needed to ensure cannabisderived medicines are affordable when they hit pharmacy shelves next year

The Pharmacy Council is proposing an increase of just under 1 per cent to next year’s annual practising certificate fee

Pharmac has pulled the plug on eight inactive applications for public funding of medicines as part of its new policy of increased transparency on decision making

The Ministry of Health and Pharmac have made 55,000 new doses of influenza vaccine available this week to help relieve a nationwide shortage. 

Pharmacists are now permitted to dispense the sleep medication melatonin to insomnia patients without a prescription, but it may be two months before pharmacists can actually offer the new service.