Patient Safety

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.

A MEDSAFE COMMITTEE says opioid-based dry cough syrups and lozenges, including some Difflam, Duro-Tuss and Pholcodine Linctus products, should be banned, and the ministry of health agrees.

MORE THAN 723,000 New Zealanders were dispensed opioids in the past year, according to figures released by He Ako Hiringa.

A public safety alert around fake oxycodone pills has been issued following the death of a man in Napier last week

The ACT party’s proposal to reverse the restrictions on pseudoephedrine would see a return to daily burglaries of pharmacies says retired Auckland pharmacist Warren Flaunty