Patient Safety

Warning over men’s use of Epilim at time of conception issued by Medsafe 

Australia and Europe have banned medicines containing pholcodine. Now Medsafe is considering whether New Zealand should follow suit

Many pharmacists fear making controlled drugs more available would lead criminals to increasingly target pharmacies at the same time as it potentially worsened opioid addiction problems

Neomai Moa Akauola had been on blood-thinning medication for years – but her GP clinic wasn’t testing the ability of her blood to clot

About 100 hospital pharmacists attended the first annual conference in three years of the New Zealand Hospital Pharmacists’ Association last month. Paulette Crowley reports on some of the highlights

Even if you trust the prescriber to do his or her job, pharmacists must also ensure medicines information is passed on to the patient, writes Máté Hegedus-Gaspar, pharmacist and non-practising lawyer

It is the liquorice-like taste of teething for toddlers, but for one mother, Bonjela almost cost her daughter's life

Máté Hegedus-Gaspar takes a close look at an HDC case, where a baby was incorrectly dispensed methadone, to extract lessons for pharmacists and technicians

In part two of a series on how pharmacists can play a role in reducing the “pill burden”, clinical pharmacist for Tend Health, Katrina Azer, outlines the process of deprescribing

Tim Jones likes to be on the right side of history, even though he might have started out on the dark side