August 2019

Jan Cunningham has been selling hair accessories through pharmacies for so long she can’t remember exactly when she started

A Nelson pharmacy now employs a “lifestyle pharmacist” to talk to people about changes they need to make to diet, exercise and sleep habits

The range of publicly funded condoms available in New Zealand looks set to expand to include coloured and flavoured sheaths, but none will be black

Auckland pharmacists are helping University of Auckland researchers find out if a saltreduction mobile phone app and switching to low-sodium table salt can lower blood pressure

The spotlight will be back on pharmacy ownership, regulation and direct-to-consumer advertising of medicines this month as the Cabinet considers its next move on the Therapeutic Products Bill

Pharmacy Today reporter Angela Woods chats to Chris James, the man at the helm of Medsafe, which instigated the sometimes unpopular surprise audits

The Ministry of Health and Pharmac sourced 55,000 new doses of influenza vaccine last month to help relieve a nationwide shortage

The End of Life Choice Bill in its current form will not give pharmacists the chance to opt out of dispensing lethal drugs, say pharmacists opposed to the legislation

Taranaki’s Marie Allan qualified during World War II, became a publican then returned to dispensing pills in the 1970s as a widowed mother of eight