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Medsafe is investigating whether any batches of the popular skin product Lucas’ Pawpaw Ointment that were recalled in Australia due to microbial contamination have been sold in New Zealand

University of Auckland researchers are warning pregnant women to be careful when taking fish oil supplements, due to new research finding highly oxidised fish oils are harmful to pregnant rats

The nutritional science division of the world’s largest food company, Nestlé, has put in a bid to buy the company that owns New Zealand’s top-selling pharmacy supplement range GO Healthy

Deputy health and disability commissioner Rose Wall has made recommendations to improve accessibility of information about the anti-seizure medicine sodium valproate and the risk it poses to unborn children

The pharmacy sector is sailing into uncharted waters as the 20 DHBs give way to Health New Zealand and the Māori Health Authority tomorrow. Jonathan Chilton-Towle speaks to leaders about what the sector can expect in the future

Chemist Warehouse is poised to expand into Dunedin, with its first store set to open in the Meridian Mall in the central city

Canterbury DHB is ending its two pharmacy medicines optimisation services at the end of this month

Targeted funding for pharmacists and GPs as Middlemore ED struggles  to cope with demand and turns to primary care for help

Future pharmacists Erana Ikimau and Anika Moana Kite Perenara are the 2022 recipients of the University of Otago School of Pharmacy’s Māori Scholarship

Digital-reminder technology can halve the risk of asthma attacks, a review led by University of Auckland School of Pharmacy senior clinical research fellow Amy Chan has found