Medicines and Therapies

An Auckland pharmacist and academic is concerned the planned roadside drug-testing regime may unfairly inconvenience some drivers appropriately taking prescription medicines. 

Changes to the Medicinal Cannabis Scheme allowing New Zealand companies to export have been called a breakthrough for the sector by industry leaders.

Healthcare Handbook editor and clinical pharmacist Carmen Pope reviews the different types of warts and the treatments available

Clinical writer Noni Richards explains the assessment and management of pain, focusing on different types and severities of pain

An Auckland pharmacist and academic is concerned the planned roadside drug-testing regime may unfairly inconvenience some drivers appropriately taking prescription medicines

A feasiblity trial on the potential therapeutic use of mushroom-derived psilocybin is set to begin this month

Changes to the Medicinal Cannabis Scheme allowing New Zealand companies to export have been called a breakthrough for the sector by industry leaders

Jonathan Chilton-Towle speaks to Natalie Gauld about her fundraising efforts for motor neurone disease

Sexual health specialist Massimo Giola looks at the evidence for doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis as a prevention tool for bacterial sexually transmitted infections

Healthcare Handbook technical editor Carmen Pope discusses the symptoms, causes and treatment of dry eye