We are on our summer break and the editorial office is closed until 17 January. In the meantime, please enjoy our Summer Hiatus series, an eclectic mix from our news and clinical archives and articles from The Conversation throughout the year
COVID-19 lockdowns have made it difficult to get a pioneering hepatitis C pharmacy programme going, but momentum is building. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports
Research led by Samoan and Cook Islands Māori academics has found that a traditional Samoan medicinal plant is as effective as ibuprofen for treating inflammation.
The Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner has found a pharmacist and the pharmacy she worked at breached their duty of care to a patient by dispensing the wrong medicine to her twice, despite being informed of the error when it first occurred
Jonathan Chilton-Towle speaks to Moore Markhams Auckland director Jonathan Roberts about the 2021 results of his firm’s annual pharmacy benchmarking survey
New Zealanders wanting to travel without vaccine passports these Christmas holidays will be able to use rapid antigen tests provided by pharmacies as evidence they are COVID-free
Waiuku pharmacist Feras Dawood has been struck off and fined for attempting to frame a junior colleague for a dispensing error that resulted in a woman being hospitalised
Pharmac’s drug buying approach disadvantages Māori, Pacific people, disabled people, those living with rare disorders and does little to reduce inequity.
