Research

Collaboration is key to boosting maternal vaccination rates to protect mothers and babies from life-threating illnesses, VIP study team principal investigator Natalie Gauld says

In a world first, New Zealand scientists have shown that vitamin C, in high-dose infusions, infiltrates cancer tumours. Fiona Cassie finds out what this means for the unproven, but popular, complementary therapy  

This month, the Ngā Kaitiaki o Te Puna Rongoā o Aotearoa – Māori Pharmacists’ Association will begin research into how Māori can receive equitable access to minor ailments medicines

Aotearoa achieved a major milestone in sexual and reproductive health and rights with the decriminalisation of abortion, but a University of Otago academic argues abortion care is still not being provided within the full extent of the law

More research is urgently needed into the impact that attending suicide events is having on paramedics and other first responders, a researcher at the University of Otago, Wellington, says

This month, the Ngā Kaitiaki o Te Puna Rongoā o Aotearoa – Māori Pharmacists’ Association will begin research into how Māori can receive equitable access to minor ailments medicines

Dunedin pharmacist Yasmin Abdul Aziz has crunched the numbers after visiting 51 pharmacies across the country. She talks to Jonathan Chilton-Towle, about her results 

In a world first, New Zealand scientists have shown that vitamin C, in high-dose infusions, infiltrates cancer tumours. Fiona Cassie finds out what this means for the unproven, but popular, complementary therapy  

Pharmacists are spending an average of 6.4 per cent of their time providing unfunded clinical services to patients, and more than half of this time is spent helping them with a minor ailment

GPs should especially be on the lookout for medication-related harm in elderly patients, according to the lead author of a new study that crunched general practice data