February 2021

Anna Lee looks into a social media post by watchdog organisation Consumer New Zealand that was last month comprehensively condemned by pharmacy followers and sector leaders  

Ngā Kaitiaki o Te Puna Rongoā o Aotearoa – Māori Pharmacists Association vice-president Mariana Hudson has been awarded a $83,000 Health Sector Research Collaboration Grant from the Health Research Council (HRC)

From near-miss air strikes and suicide bombers to ransacked health clinics, no two days are the same for New Zealand pharmacist Petra Straight who works for Save the Children. She talks to Anna Lee 

Zoom Health has failed to reach its target after seeking to raise $3 million of new growth capital, but the company is still thrilled with the result

A new set of competency standards for pharmacist prescribers is unlikely to attract flak when it comes into force next month

Natural Health Products New Zealand has appointed BioEquitas’ managing director Samantha Gray to the role of government affairs director

Kaikōura pharmacist Holly Harris spoke to Anna Lee last November about living and working in one of the more beautiful parts of New Zealand, where swimming with dolphins is a regular summertime activity 

The Pharmacy Guild will ask DHBs to boost funding to cover the expected rise in costs created for pharmacy owners by the Government’s proposed expansion of sick leave entitlements. 

Always a source of embarrassment for young people, acne can be treated effectively but it’s all about finding products to suit the individual, writes pharmacist Darshana Kanjee from Life Pharmacy Dunedin