Diabetes

The Pharmacy Guild and other pharmacy sector representatives have asked for a hui with Te Whatu Ora, Pharmac and wholesalers to address frustrations over the roll out of continuous glucose monitors

Pharmacists and patient advocates are welcoming Pharmac’s decision to fund continuous glucose monitors and widen access to insulin pumps for people with diabetes.

Pharmacists and patient advocates are welcoming Pharmac’s decision to fund continuous glucose monitors and widen access to insulin pumps for people with diabetes

A pharmacy has been pinged after an insulin pen dispensing error resulted in serious side effects, reports Jonathan Chilton-Towle

Dan Baumgardt is a senior lecturer at the School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience at the University of Bristol

A pharmacy that mistakenly dispensed a fast-release insulin pen instead of a slow-release pen has been found to have breached a patient’s rights by the health and disability commissioner

Thousands of people have signed a petition to try to prevent Pharmac from delisting a popular type of insulin pump, but an endocrinologist says the two proposed alternatives are also “very effective”. And the funding of continuous glucose monitors is expected to lead to more equitable treatment

A NEW ZEALAND supplement derived from dahlia flowers that supports healthy blood sugar levels has been granted a patent for the US, with patents for other countries in the pipeline.

The latest data on the number of New Zealanders prescribed diabetes drugs dulaglutide and empagliflozin has been labelled as “impressive” by an Auckland-based specialist who campaigned for years to get them funded

Pioneering pharmacist prescriber Leanne Te Karu has been made co-leader of the new national renal clinical network. Natasha Jojoa Burling reports