November 2019

As Irish author Peter Goulding pointed out in his 2018 book of poetry*, we  are approaching the rear end of the year, with its attendant feelings (in this part of the world anyway) of exhaustion, a stirring of hope with summer beckoning, and apprehension over whether we will actually make it through the final stretch to Christmas

Pharmacist Kesh Naidoo-Rauf, a first-time local body candidate, has won a seat on the Hamilton City Council representing the east ward

Dispensing medicines from a tent with an upturned cardboard box for a counter is a far cry from Carolyn Oakley-Brown’s usual dispensing experience

A year after losing a court case over their own advertising in Australia, AFT Pharmaceuticals’ multiple complaints about another company’s ads have all been upheld or settled

Queenstown pharmacy owner Bronwen Judkins has been left “devastated” by work visa law changes that may cost her four ­valued retail staff members

All indigestion medicines containing ranitidine have been recalled or had their supply halted after a carcinogenic impurity was identified in it

The Ministry of Health should be making more use of pharmacists’ skills to help mental health patients, Pharmaceutical Society president Ian McMichael says

Sales of all products in independent pharmacies across the country are down only slightly, but there’s been a significant drop in Auckland. Pharmacy Today reporter Angela Woods investigates

The Act Party is calling for the Government to either remove the $5 prescription fee or ensure all pharmacies charge it