Heart Disease

ACT Party leader David Seymour’s attempt to drive a Land Rover up the steps of Parliament yesterday overshadowed the bigger story of Julian Paton’s fundraising efforts for heart research. Blenheim journalist Chris Valli talked to Professor Paton when he stopped over in Blenheim on route from Dunedin to Auckland 

The delisting date for cilazapril has pushed out to mid-2024, Pharmac reports

Free blood pressure checks are being given at pop-up clinics for Heart Awareness Month 

Experts are urging people with high blood pressure to keep taking their medications as usual during the COVID-19 epidemic

Official information on non-steroidal anti-inflammatories is changing, to make people more aware of the drugs’ cardiovascular risk 

Prescribers and patients are to get detailed knowledge to help in deciding whether to start aspirin to prevent onset of cardiovascular disease

An Otago University postgraduate pharmacy student has shown Māori and Pasifika peoples are at greater risk of harm when taking dabigatran

Heart Rhythm week, commencing 18 June, could see pharmacists play a big role in preventing strokes and their associated heavy trauma and costs

Dale Griffiths is leading New Zealand pharmacists in participating in this year's Atrial Fibrillation Week