Research

Pharmacist and researcher Nora Parore has been awarded a $258,471 Health Research Council clinical research training fellowship to examine Māori experiences of pharmacists, pharmacy and the health system

Pharmacist and researcher Nora Parore has been awarded a $258,471 Health Research Council clinical research training fellowship to examine Māori experiences of pharmacists, pharmacy and the health system

Jo Hikaka, pharmacist and past president of Ngā Kaitiaki o te Puna Rongoā – the Māori Pharmacists Association, talks about her latest research on equitable access to medicines 

Screening for hepatitis C needs to be rolled out in pharmacy and needle exchange programmes if New Zealand wants to eliminate the life-threatening disease, says Ed Gane, a liver specialist and co-author of a study published in the New Zealand Medical Journal

A new vaccine that protects against Covid-19 is almost 95 percent effective, early data from US company Moderna shows

Māori patients receive fewer prescriptions for the common diabetes medication Metformin than non-Māori despite suffering from the disease at twice the rate, according to a new study by the University of Waikato

Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington researcher Nora Parore (Ngāti Whātua, Ngāpuhi) has received a Health Research Council (HRC) Clinical Research Training Fellowship to examine Māori experiences of pharmacists and the health system

The right of Māori to experience equitable health outcomes in relation to medicine review services must be realised by improving Māori older adults’ autonomy and control and by better use of pharmacists’ skills, according to the latest research by clinical pharmacist Jo Hikaka 

A small, qualitative study of pharmacists selling complementary medicines has identified some pharmacists ­selling such products despite having concerns about their efficacy

A small, qualitative study of pharmacists selling complementary medicines has identified some pharmacists ­selling such products despite having concerns about their efficacy