Douglas Pharmaceuticals is heralding early results of its trial on using ketamine to treat depression as possibly the most significant step in the field for 25 years
Head colds are unpleasant, common and unfortunately cannot be cured. Pharmacy owner HeeSeung Lee talks to Jonathan Chilton-Towle about what pharmacy staff can do to provide relief to their patients this winter
The Government has extended the waiver allowing pharmacies to dispense non-NZePS (New Zealand Electronic Prescription Service) prescriptions without a physical prescriber signature until 20 September
A pharmacist has been ordered to upskill on her medicines checking after she incorrectly dispensed sertraline instead of sumatriptan to a teenage patient; it was her first day at a new pharmacy
A chance discovery of an old chemist’s bottle in his childhood home led Wairarapa archivist Mark Pacey to a lifelong interest in the early days of pharmacy in Pākehā New Zealand, and now he is publishing his second book on the subject
Pharmac has found replacements for most of the drugs affected by the generic medicines manufacturer Apotex leaving New Zealand later this year, however many of them will initially be supplied as unapproved medicines
Douglas Pharmaceuticals is heralding early results of its trial on using ketamine to treat depression as possibly the most significant step in the field for 25 years