New Zealand Doctor

Auckland GP and addiction specialist Graham Gulbransen is challenging the Ministry of Health to consider him a spe­cialist in prescribing medicinal cannabis

Wanting to head off a winter surge in antibiotics use, and to slow the spread of antimicrobial resistance, Pharmac and GPs are getting tougher on colds and coughs 

As Cabinet considers the business case for an electronic health record, across Tasman thousands of Australians are opting out of a newly launched record

European and US medicines regulators are all over quinolone and fluoroquinolone antibiotics, but NZ prescribing is common and sometimes inappropriate 

The NZMA is concerned about a draft code of practice put forward by the Pharmacy Council for clinical pharmacists working in general practice, describing it as unnecessary and perplexing 

In a blow for Otago and South­land, health minister David Clark says he has no immediate plan to review the contentious pop­ulation-based funding formula often blamed for the Southern DHB’s deficit woes

Mindfulness can cause some people to detach from reality and lose their critical powers of thinking, writes Barbara Docherty who has delved into all strategies to achieve tranquillity

The clear separation between where people get their HIV meds and everything else pharmacy-related is something pharmacy needs to think about, according to pharmacist and AUT lecturer Charon Lessing

Payments to doctors by drug companies are under the spotlight as the NZMA and Medicines New Zealand aim for greater transparency

HIV advocacy group urges routine HIV testing for patients with unexplained symptoms, even if they don’t fit the risk profile