Research

Contact tracing needs to increase three- or four-fold as long as the COVID-19 coronavirus remains a health threat, Dr Ayesha Verrall's audit has found

An “important reduction” in the overall availability of tobacco would be achieved if sales were restricted to liquor stores, petrol stations or pharmacies, new University of Otago research shows.  

Otago researchers have managed to ­enrol more than 1000 patients in their study into the health impacts of the $5 prescription fee.

Researchers in the United States have unveiled the structure of the “spike protein” of 2019-nCoV – the virus behind the current coronavirus disease outbreak

Promisia CEO Rene de Wit has slammed a new study examining the toxicity of a herbal extract found in the company’s natural dietary supplement Arthrem, following a reports of liver harm (hepatotoxicity)

The $5 prescription fee is known to be a barrier to patients accessing medicines; but, for the first time, a University of Otago study is measuring the impact the fees have on patients’ health

The body representing New Zealand’s fledgling medicinal cannabis industry is welcoming the long-awaited regulations that will govern the sector

Former Pharmaceutical Society president Elizabeth Plant has joined a new Bay of Plenty-based medicinal cannabis venture, Eqalis

Rhiannon Braund has become the first female pharmacist to be made a professor at the University of Otago

University of Otago researchers are calling on pharmacists to help them enrol patients from regions across the country in their study