Death

Legalising recreational cannabis has been rejected narrowly in the non-binding election day referendum

The Otago School of Pharmacy held a memorial event last month to commemorate Dorothy Saville, a beloved lecturer who passed away in September

The Otago School of Pharmacy will hold a memorial event tomorrow to commemorate the life of Dorothy Saville

The Countdown supermarket chain has instituted a limit on paracetamol sales following the overdose death of a Dunedin student, but pharmacy and GP leaders are calling for even tighter restrictions

Many in the New Zealand pharmacy community are mourning the loss of a kind and generous educator who died earlier this month

The death by overdose of a Dunedin student has sparked calls to bring paracetamol into line with UK standards and restrict it to pharmacy-only sales. 

A student’s fatal overdose on paracetamol has prompted a coroner to call for limits on sales of the non-prescription painkiller – a move that has saved lives overseas

An external investigation is under way at Middlemore Hospital after a patient death which is possibly related to a fault in an automated medicine dispensing machine

Well-known pharmacist and e-pharmacy pioneer, Paul Cressey, died on June 24 following a tragic accident.

Dunedin pharmacy student Kevin Kum Fike Lee, 22, has been found dead following a tragic tramping incident