Child Health

There is a question mark over how pharmacies will continue to be funded to provide COVID-19 antivirals without a prescription from the start of next month

Pharmacist and medical herbalist Phil Rasmussen examines the evidence for natural health products being used in the field of children’s mental health

As a pharmacist with a passion for vaccinations and all the public health benefits they bring, I have seen tremendous changes in a pharmacy’s role as the home of preventative medicine

A new nit treatment uses biofluorescent powder and UV light to identify the eggs and prevent reinfestation, as Natasha Jojoa Burling reports

The Special Authority required to prescribe ADHD medications is “the bane of everybody’s lives”, says specialist developmental paediatrician Bronwyn Rosie

A new nit treatment uses biofluorescent powder and UV light to identify the eggs and prevent reinfestation, as Natasha Jojoa Burling reports

A month on from pharmacies getting the green light to vaccinate infants, only one pharmacy in New Zealand is approved to deliver the new service

A milestone study led by University of Queensland researchers has identified the main types of E. coli bacteria that cause neonatal meningitis, and revealed why some infections recur despite being treated with antibiotics

Pharmacist vaccinators have been given the green light to offer several childhood immunisations.

GP leaders are frustrated and “extraordinarily” disappointed at yesterday’s decision to allow pharmacist vaccinators to deliver six-week infant vaccinations