jct@pharmacytoday.co.nz

Pharmacists are welcoming news that they will be funded to offer free pertussis vaccines to pregnant women from September

Auckland pharmacist El-Fadil Kardaman has had his registration cancelled and been ordered to pay more than $29,000 by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal after he refused to comply with a previous ruling against him

Medsafe will soon require all medicines containing opioids to display a warning that they are addictive and can cause overdoses

The community pharmacy sector has largely been left out of a series of Government programmes aimed at relieving workforce pressures

Pharmacists can now supply COVID-19 antivirals without a prescription but it appears not many have actually done so due to strict access criteria. 

A pioneering clinical trial has shown that an emollient cream containing oil derived from native kānuka is a more effective treatment for eczema than the cream alone

Another shortage of the hormone replacement therapy drug oestradiol is causing headaches for pharmacists and discomfort for many of their patients

Pharmaceutical Society president Rhiannon Braund says “hand on heart” at least some pharmacies will be supplying the COVID-19 antivirals Paxlovid and Lagevrio without a prescription by 28 July

The Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand has confirmed that associate health minister Ayesha Verrall made a mistake yesterday when she said COVID-19 antivirals will soon be made available as pharmacy-only medicines

A Medsafe investigation has confirmed no contaminated Lucas’ Papaw Ointment made it into New Zealand, despite a company importing it from Australia outside normal distribution channels