Patient Safety

New Zealand’s rates of persistent use of opioids may be cause for concern, University of Auckland School of Pharmacy lecturer Jay Gong says.

THE ANGLO-SWEDISH pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is withdrawing its COVID-19 vaccine globally.

Using artificial intelligence to make prescribing safer for older people is at the heart of research attracting nearly $400,000 in grant funding from the Health Research Council

The “high risk” of psychiatric side effects has led Medsafe to call for the over-the-counter oral antihistamine, promethazine (brand name Phenergan) not to be used by children aged under six

The Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is withdrawing its COVID-19 vaccine globally

New Zealand’s rates of persistent use of opioids may be cause for concern, University of Auckland School of Pharmacy lecturer Jay Gong says

A former health researcher says a claim over 2000 deaths are caused in New Zealand by medication errors is a gross overestimation

Medsafe has seized two moisturisers because they contain a ‘potent steroid’ which is not allowed in New Zealand 

A pharmacist working towards a business degree at the University of Canterbury has won an international award for software designed to reduce medication errors

Vulnerable babies will be put at risk by an “extremely disappointing” decision to not fund a drug preventing hospitalisation with RSV, says a paediatrician.