April 2023

Healthcare Handbook technical editor Carmen Pope discusses pink eye, a general term that can describe at least a dozen different eye conditions

Canterbury clinical pharmacist Katrina Azer writes about how, by understanding and addressing their communities’ health needs, independent pharmacies can carve out niches for themselves as leading health destinations

Pharmacist and medical herbalist Phil Rasmussen discusses the sustainability of plant-derived medicines, at a time when demand is increasing and the effects of climate change are becoming more apparent

As the motu moves beyond the acute phase of the pandemic, and rapidly altered healthcare delivery approaches, disabled people have largely been forgotten, write a team of researchers from Victoria University, Massey University and Kaitiaki Research

Last year, we saw the largest ever global outbreak of mpox. Sexual health specialist Massimo Giola looks at how it was stopped in its tracks

University of Otago academics Steven James Jackson, Marcelle Dawson and Michael Sam ask if the constant quest for wellness is really improving people’s wellbeing