Death

The pharmacy community is mourning the loss of well-known Christchurch pharmacist Peter Cooke who died of cancer on Sunday

The death of a mental health worker in April 2017 highlights the risk of an excessive medication dosage heightening the danger of underlying natural disease, says coroner Bridgette Windley

Evidence given to the inquest into six sudden, unexpected deaths after a Pharmac anti-epilepsy drug funding switch doesn’t clearly link the two, the chief coroner has found

Pharmacist and Pharmacy Council manager of compliance Pam Duncan has been remembered for her influence over the pharmacy profession and for touching the lives of many of its members

Pharmacist and Pharmacy Council manager of compliance Pam Duncan has been remembered for her influence over the pharmacy profession and for touching the lives of many of its members

Auckland School of Pharmacy staff were last week trying to make sense of the “enormous shock” of their colleague Elizabeth Bangera being fatally stabbed on 19 March

Police have charged a man with murder after Auckland School of Pharmacy coordinator Elizabeth Bangera and her husband, Herman, were fatally stabbed in their home on 19 March

Communication between people with epilepsy, their doctors and between agencies, around the potential risks of switching brands of anti-epileptic lamotrigine was examined at today’s epilepsy deaths inquest 

In last year’s ­referendum on the End of Life Choice Act, New Zealanders voted overwhelmingly to legalise euthanasia

Testimony on day two of the chief coroner’s inquest into what role a Pharmac epilepsy drug brand switch played in the deaths of six people has revealed more confusion