December 2018

Summer is known for holidays, barbeques, backyard cricket and trips to the beach. But it also brings with it a host of new ailments. 

University of Auckland pharmacy law lecturer Sanya Ram explores some of the common questions that arise when patients are travelling with medicines and offers some practical tips to help patients prepare in advance of travel

Māori Pharmacists’ Association vice president Kevin Pewhairangi wishes you all a Merry Christmas and lays down a challenge to embrace te reo Māori in the New Year

Magnesium is found throughout the body and is hugely important for the bodily processes of energy production, oxidative phosphorylation and glycolysis

An Auckland pharmaceutical company in hot water over false and misleading advertising was last month awaiting the Federal Court of Australia’s final orders to be handed down before commenting on whether it would appeal

The Pharmacy Council has reduced its proposed annual practising certificate fee increase for the coming year in response to overwhelming criticism from the sector

Stewart Jessamine will be remembered as an innovative and pragmatic official, following the end of his 26-year career in public service

A former medicines control auditor believes the organisation made the wrong decision when it approved auditors to conduct unannounced audits of pharmacies at any time of day

A pharmacist is leading a transformation in how healthcare data are used at Waitemata DHB

If cigarette sales were restricted to pharmacies, smokers buying tobacco could be given smoking-cessation counselling and nicotine-replacement therapy